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This page contains links and short annotations for some of the articles we have written for our clients and friends. Click the link below the view the annotation or scroll down the page. The article topics include: |
| Making Memories and Family Heirlooms: How to preserve your baby's treasures |
| Keep it Simple: Ten things you can do in the field to make life easier in the lab (and beyond) |
| A suggestion for curating privately-owned collections |
| Considerations for contemplating creating an archaeological repository |
| Something Old, Something New: Marrying overlooked museum records with countywide resource protection |
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Making Memories and Family Heirlooms: How to preserve your baby's treasures |
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A family has heirlooms while a museum has artifacts. Your house is not a museum, so you just need to balance the USE of object (that’s what makes it special to your family) with wanting to SAVE it for the future. This is an attempt to provide realistic, non-guilt-tripping advice on how to preserve special items...... Open Full Article Back to top.... |
Keep it Simple: Then things you can do in the field to make life easier in the lab (and beyond) |
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Since those in the field have often moved on to another project by the time the lab work is in full force, here are some suggestions to make life more pleasant in the lab. Several of these suggestions should also be considered before any field work begins, since they will influence the efficient curation of a collection...... Open Full Article Back to top.... |
A suggestion for curating privately-owned collections |
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As Washington State law stipulates, collections from private land are the property of the landowners. In the course of a large development project, this can mean convincing a developer to donate the collection they own (and have paid to collect) to an appropriate repository. On occasion the landowner exercises his or her right to keep the collection...... Open Full Article Back to top.... |
Considerations for contemplating creating an archaeological repository |
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Repository is defined as: “a facility such as a museum, archaeological center, laboratory or storage facility managed by a university, college, museum, other educational or scientific institution, a Federal, State or local government agency or Indian Tribe that can provide professional, systematic and accountable curatorial services on a long-term basis” (36 CFR Part 79.4 (j))...... Open Full Article Back to top.... |
Something Old, Something New: Marrying overlooked museum records with countywide resource protection |
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Paper Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Denver, Colorado March 21, 2002
In July 2001, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture began a project under contract with King County Roads Services Division to identify previously unrecorded prehistoric resources in King County, Washington, and document them in a dynamic countywide database dubbed the King County Archaeological Resources Database (KCARD)...... |
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