Deep Creek Site (CA-SBR-176): Rehabilitating Legacy Collections with the Veterans Curation Program

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Deep Creek Investigation is a small legacy collection of artifacts and documents from the Deep Creek Site (CA-SBR-176), which is located in the Mojave River Forks region in San Bernardino County, CA, within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Los Angeles District. This collection was recently rehabilitated by technicians at the Veterans Curation Program (VCP) laboratory in San Mateo. The VCP is funded by the USACE and provides temporary employment to newly separated veterans. The veteran technicians gain transferable job skills via the process of rehabilitating USACE-owned archaeological collections. In turn, the research value of collections like Deep Creek is ensured for the future as these collections are rehabilitated for long-term storage. The rehabilitation of these collections at the VCP brings them one step closer to being accessible to communities and researchers. This paper describes the rehabilitation process of the Deep Creek Site collection at the VCP, connects new data to previous findings, and examines the collection’s potential to answer new research questions in the future.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32826