Working with 36 CFR Part 79
In anticipation of the new federal curation regulation, staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have begun a curation program which complies with the proposed law. Cultural resources include archaeological sites dating from Archaic to Classic Period Anasazi as well as historical Homesteading and WWII (Manhattan Project) era sites. Recent curation work has included the identification of Department of Energy (DOE) owned archaeological and historical artifact collections and inspections of their various repositories have also been started. During the winter of 1989 all human skeletal remains excavated from DOE/LANL land (from 1943 to present) were located and inventoried. At present, all such sensitive materials are curated with the Museum of New Mexico and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology's Osteology Laboratory at the University of New Mexico. This paper discusses problems and issues that have arisen for the LANL curation program. These include artifact ownership, inadequate archival records, repository acquisition of federally-owned collections, evaluation of repositories, evaluation of artifact condition and curation plans for the future.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/EH
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 6544035
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-90-3182; CONF-9004247-1; ON: DE91000368
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society for Conservation Archaeology conference, Las Vegas, NV (USA), Apr 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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