Sources
of Archeological Curation Information
National Park Service Online Sources
Conserve O Gram Series
(http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html).
Washington, D.C.: Museum Management Program, National Park
Service.
Cultural Resource Management Magazine
(http://www.cr.nps.gov/crm/).
Washington, D.C.: Archeology and Ethnography Program, National
Park Service.
Museum Handbook (Volumes I-III)
(http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/handbook.html).
Washington, D.C.: Museum Management Program, National Park
Service.
Museum Management Bibliography
(http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/mmpbib1.html).
Washington, D.C.: Museum Management Program, National Park
Service.
General Collections Management
Appelbaum, Barbara
1991 Guide to Environmental Protection of Collections. Madison,
Connecticut: Sound View Press.
Bachmann, Konstanze, editor
1992 Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators.
Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Christenson, Andrew L.
1979 The Role of Museums in Cultural Resource Management.
American Antiquity 44(1):161 163.
Conservation Online (COOL) – Message Archives
2002 ( http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/)
Guldbeck, Per E.
1972 The Care of Historical Collections: A Conservation Handbook
for the Nonspecialist. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association
for State and Local History Press.
Knell, Simon, editor
1994 Care of Collections. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Series, edited by Susan M. Pearce. London, England: Routledge.
MacLeish, A. Bruce
1985 The Care of Antiques and Historical Collections. Second
Edition. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association of State
and Local History Press.
Northeast Document Conservation Center Website – a
variety of leaflets about management, conservation, care and
storage of collections.
(http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.list.php).
Schultz, Arthur W., editor
1992 Caring for Your Collections: preserving and protecting
your art and other collectibles. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc.
Thomson, Garry
1986 The Museum Environment, Second Edition. Oxford, England:
Butterworth-Heinemann.
Packing and Handling of Collections
Babin, Angela and Monona Rossol
1988 Glove Selection. (http://hazard.com/library/topics/Chemical_Safety/Glove%20selection)
New York: Center for Safety in the Arts.
Berke, Debra
1987 Pack With Care. Ceramics Monthly 35:76-77.
Bradley, Susan, et al.
1990 General Guidelines on the Handling of Objects. In A Guide
to the Storage, Exhibition and Handling of Antiquities, Ethnographia
and Pictorial Art, edited by Susan Bradley. British Museum
Occasional Paper 66. London, England: British Museum.
Bryantsev, Alexei Vyackeslavovich
1985 The Hermitage Museum’s Packing Techniques for Paintings.
Museum 37(2):123-124.
Rubias-Maravilla, Nimfa
2001 Handling and Packing of Museum Objects. (http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/maravilla/handling.html).
Managing Archeological Collections
American Archaeology Division
2001 Guidelines for Archaeological Curation. (http://coas.missouri.edu/anthromuseum/PDFs/curation.pdf).
Columbia, Missouri: American Archaeology Division, Museum
of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Archeological Research Institute
2000 Requirements and Guidelines for Preparation of Collections
for Submission to Archaeological Research Institute. (http://archaeology.asu.edu/library/submission/submission_pdf/ARIcollGuide99.pdf).
Tempe, Arizona: Department of Anthropology, Arizona State
University.
Childs, S. Terry and Eileen Corcoran
2000 Managing Archeological Collections: Technical Assistance.
(www.cr.nps.gov/aad/collections/).
Washington, D.C.: Archeology and Ethnography Program, National
Park Service.
Dean, J. Claire
1992 Guidelines to Required Procedures for Archeological Field
and Laboratory Work at Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Las Animas
County, Colorado. Fort Carson, Colorado: United States Army.
Giesen, Myra
1999 Introduction: The Management of Federal Archeological
Collections. Museum Anthropology 23(2):3-5. (http://www.usbr.gov/cultural/giesen_ma.pdf).
Griset, Suzanne and Marc Kodack
1999 Guidelines for the Field Collection of Archaeological
Materials and Standard Operating Procedures for Curating Department
of Defense Archaeological Collections. (http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/engr/curation/Reports/Coll%20Guidelines.PDF).
St. Louis, Missouri: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Marquardt, William H., Anta Montet White, and Sandra C. Scholtz
1982 Resolving the Crisis in Archaeological Collections Curation.
American Antiquity 47(2):409 418.
Museum of New Mexico
1996 Procedures Manual for Submission of Archaeological Artifact
and Records Collections. (http://www.miaclab.org/collections/submission.pdf).
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Laboratory
of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico.
Office of State Archaeology
1995 Archaeological Curation Standards and Guidelines. (http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/ncarch/resource/curation.htm).
Raleigh, North Carolina: Office of State Archaeology, Division
of Historical Resources, North Carolina Department of Cultural
Resources.
Sullivan, Lynn P.
1991 Managing Archeological Resources from the Museum Perspective.
Archeology and Ethnography Technical Brief No. 13, April 1992.
(www.cr.nps.gov/aad/PUBS/TECHBR/TCH13A.HTM).
Washington, D.C.: Archeology and Ethnography Program, National
Park Service.
Conservation of Objects
Buys, Susan and Victoria Oakley
1993 The Conservation and Restoration of Ceramics. Jordan
Hill, Oxford, England: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Howie, Frank M., editor
1992 The Care and Conservation of Geological Material: Minerals,
Rocks, Meteorites and Lunar Finds. Jordan Hill, Oxford, England:
Butterworth–Heinemann.
Florian, Mary-Lou , editor
1991 The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Materials.
Los Angeles, California: Getty Trust Publications, Getty Conservation
Institute.
Paris, Jan
1999 Choosing and Working with a Conservator. Technical Leaflet,
Section 6, Leaflet 9. (http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf69.htm).
Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center.
Archeological Field Conservation
Bourque, Bruce J., Stephen W. Brooke, Ronald Kley, and Kenneth
Morris
1980 Conservation in Archaeology: Moving towards Closer Cooperation.
American Antiquity 45(4):794 799.
Cronyn, J. M.
1990 The Elements of Archaeological Conservation. London:
Routledge.
Dowman, Elizabeth A.
1970 Conservation in Field Archaeology. London: Methuen &
Co, Ltd.
Dorrell, Peter G.
1995 Photography in Archaeology and Conservation. 2nd edition.
Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge
University Press.
Hamilton, Donny L.
1999 Methods of Conserving Archaeological Material from Underwater
Sites. Revision Number 1. (http://nautarch.tamu.edu/class/anth605/file0.htm).
College Station, Texas: Anthropology 605, Conservation of
Archaeological Resources I, Nautical Archaeology Program,
Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University.
Joukowsky, Martha
1980 A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology: Tools and Techniques
of Field Work for Archaeologists. New York: Prentice Hall
Press.
Morris, Kenneth
1980 Conservation of Archaeological Collections. North American
Archaeologist 2(2):131 136.
Noel Hume, Ivor
1975 Historical Archaeology: A Comprehensive Guide for both
Amateurs and Professionals to the Techniques and Methods of
Excavation Historic Sites. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
Inc.
Organ, R. M.
1968 Design for Scientific Conservation of Antiquities. Washington,
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Pearson, Colin, editor
1988 Conservation of Marine Archaeological Objects. Butterworth's
Series in Conservation and Museology. Oxford, England: Butterworth–Heinemann.
Plenderleith, H. J.
1956 The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art. London:
Oxford University Press.
Reed, R.
1972 Ancient Skins, Parchments, and Leathers. New York: Seminar
Press.
Sanford, Elizabeth
1975 Conservation of Artifacts: A Question of Survival. Historical
Archaeology 9:55 64.
Sease, Catherine
1994 A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist. Third
edition. Archeological Research Tools, Volume 4. Los Angeles,
California: Los Angeles Institute of Archaeology, University
of California.
Singley, Katherine R.
1981 Caring for Artifacts after Excavation: some advice for
archaeologists. Historical Archaeology 15(1):36 47
South, Stanley
1976 The Role of the Archaeologist in Conservation-Preservation
Process. In Preservation and Conservation: Principles and
Practices, edited by Sharon Timmons, pp. 35-43. Washington,
D.C.: The Preservation Press.
Watkinson, David, editor
1987 First Aid for Finds. Second edition. London, England:
The British Archaeological Trust and the UKIC Archaeology
Section.
Laws, Regulations and Standards for Archeology and Collections
Management - Online
Access to all laws related to management of cultural resources:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/linklaws.htm
American Antiquities Act of 1906 (16 USC 431-433)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/anti1906.htm
Historic Sites Act of 1935 (16 USC 461-467)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/hsact35.htm
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16
USC 470)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title16/chapter1a_subchapterii_.html
Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/tools/laws/AHPA.htm
Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/tools/laws/ARPA.htm
Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/25/ch32.html
or
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Regulations
(43 CFR 10) - Final Rule,1994
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra.
36 CFR Part 79 - Curation Of Federally-Owned And Administered
Archeological Collections.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/tools/36cfr79.htm
South Dakota State Archaeological Research Center
2002 Collection Curation Agreement. (http://www.sdsmt.edu/wwwsarc/downloads/curation.pdf).
South Dakota State Historical Society.
State of California
1993 Guidelines for the Curation of Archeological Collections.
(http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/guide93.pdf).
Historical Resources Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation,
State of California.
Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
2002 Curation Forms. (http://www.utexas.edu/research/tarl/curation/default.php).
University of Texas.
University of Arkansas Collections Facility
2004 Letter of Agreement for Curation of Archeological Materials.
(http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/agreement.doc).
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