Lynne P. Sullivan is curator of archaeology at the Frank H. McClung Museum and research associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee. S. Terry Childs is an archaeologist in the Archeology and Ethnography Program of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C.
Part 1 Series Editors' Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 1 Introduction
Part 4 2 A Brief History of Archaeological Curation in the United States
Chapter 5 The Museum Era of Archaeology: Nineteenth Century to the 1930s /
Early Federal Archaeology Programs: 1930s and 1940s / The Postwar
Construction Boom and the "New Archaeology": 1945 to 1970 / Making versus
Caring for Collections: The 1970s and Beyond /
Part 6 3 The Current Status of Archaeological Collections
Chapter 7 Federal Legislation and Policy / Key Elements of the Curation
Crisis / The Bright Side
Part 8 4 Repositories: What Are They, and What Do They Do?
Chapter 9 Kinds of Repositories / What a Repository Does and Why /
Responsibilities and Training of Repository Staff / Conclusion
Part 10 5 Managing Curated Collections: The Basics
Chapter 11 Acquistions Policies and Practices / Accessioning / Cataloging /
Collections Preparation: Labeling and Conservation / Storage / Inventory
Control and Data Management / Deaccessioning / Public Access and Use /
Conclusion
Part 12 6 Making a Collection: Fieldwork Practices and Curation
Considerations
Chapter 13 Before the Field: Project Design / In the Field: Sampling and
Conservation / In the Laboratory: Applying the Sampling Strategy and More
Conservation / In Your Office after the Field Project: Records Management /
Conclusion
Part 14 7 Working with a Repository
Chapter 15 Arranging for Long-term Curation / Using Curated Collections /
ConclusionPart 16 8 The Future of Archaeological Collections Curation
Chapter 17 Access: Collections in the Computer Age / Use of Curated
Collections / The "Big Picture": Curated Collections as Samples of the
Archaeological Record / Encouraging Repositories to Curate Representative
Samples of the Archaeological Record / Coordinated
Part 18 Appendix: Useful Internet Sites Relating to Curating Archaeological
Collections
Part 19 References
Part 20 Index
Part 21 About the Authors
