Artifact Report, Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir 1964-1965

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District archaeological collections were delivered to the Veterans Curation Program's (VCP) Alexandria, Virginia, laboratory in September 2014. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through JMA, an archaeological contract firm located in Alexandria, Virginia.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir 1964-1965 investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Huntington District collection, the same standard procedures and Archaeological Collections Facility at Grave Creek Mound Historic Site guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site for permanent curation.

The artifact database can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/447991

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Principal Investigator(s): Oscar L. Mairs; Edward V. McMichael

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District

Sponsor(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Repository(s): Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District

Record Identifiers

purchase number (s): 31-1181

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include an artifact report, an artifact database, a finding aid, an original investigation report, an oversized material spreadsheet, a scanned asset key, and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include correspondence, a document folder listing, initial data collection, notes, oversized labels, a map, and a record removal sheet. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

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