Digitizing the Collections from the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark Excavations 1960 to Present

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2019, we began a three-year project to digitize the collections from the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark. The site is well-known for its archaeological integrity and preservation of some of the earliest human activities in the Plains and the Rocky Mountains. The goal of the Hell Gap Archaeological Records Digital Archive Project (HGARDA) is to preserve the slides, negatives, unit notes, artifacts, and other voluminous records generated since excavations began in 1961. We have also begun an oral history project that documents field school participant experiences from the 1960s. This paper presents the current status of the HGARDA project. It shows how the public will be able to access digital objects and 3D artifact models through the UW Digital Collections.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37683.0