The Consequences of Drought: Inadvertent Discoveries on Federal Land

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Collections: Federal Archaeology and "New Discoveries" under NAGPRA" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Several years of unrelenting drought in California has resulted in historically-low drawdowns to the state’s reservoirs. A corollary effect has been a notable increase in the number of inadvertent discoveries along the newly-exposed shorelines, an occurrence that has clear implications for NAGPRA. In response, the Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation has developed a suite of new procedures to address inadvertent discoveries of Native American gravesites on Reclamation-owned and managed land. The practical, real-world implementation of these procedures will be illustrated using a case study drawn from a recent inadvertent discovery on Reclamation land.

KEYWORDS: NAGPRA, Inadvertent Discovery, Tribal Consultation

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond Collections: Federal Archaeology and "New Discoveries" under NAGPRA   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24292