Archaeological Curation: Challenges and Opportunities
Author(s): Stephen Lekson
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
After almost three decades in museums and allied institutions, I have some ideas about the challenges and opportunities facing archaeological curation, especially in the western United States. This poster presents several of these themes – the permanent curation crisis, UFOs and CUIs, legacy collections, changing audiences, and of course Tribal collaborations – with ideas about how they might (or might not) be resolved. The poster format invites comment and conversation with other curators, historic preservation professionals, and any archaeologists concerned with collections and public interpretation – hopefully refining these ideas for an article or online content.
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Archaeological Curation: Challenges and Opportunities. Stephen Lekson. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449658)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southwest United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.365; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -93.428; max lat: 41.902 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22924