The state of the Jamestown Collection: Preparing for 2019 and the future

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Over the past four years, Jamestown Rediscovery staff has been working towards the anniversary year of 1619 by developing research initiatives to further understand the beginnings of democracy and slavery. While this work occurred, providing support for ongoing research through the processing, housing, cataloging, and analysis of artifacts was reevaluated. A National Endowment for the Humanities Grant ensured that legacy material housed in the Archaearium museum and in the Vault collections storage space is safely and efficiently housed and conserved, and spurred the beginnings of the physical organization of the Jamestown Rediscovery Reference collection. In turn, the digital catalog has been updated and customized, facilitating new discussion on artifact analysis and data sharing. This paper will discuss the past 4 years of work by Jamestown Rediscovery curators and conservators, working with larger research goals in mind and with the intention to support many years of archaeological investigation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology.   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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