The Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections is a group of skilled professionals established by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and located at the Corps' St. Louis District.
Department of Defense Cultural Resources Program Newsletter
Cultural Resources Update Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 2011)
Corps Curators Project Gives Returning Vets New Job Skills
When Josh Weigler returned from a tour of duty with the Marines in Afghanistan in 2002, he found his prospects for a satisfying, full-time job extremely limited. Today, Weigler is one of ten military vets taking part in the ground-breaking Veterans Curation Program (VCP). [More]
Archaeologist unearths way to help our veterans
Most archaeologists work in sheltered environments and in isolation. Not Dr. Sonny Trimble. He's the forensic archaeologist who uncovered Saddam Hussein's crimes against his own people, and went on a massive hunt for mass graves in the deserts of Iraq. [Link]
Digging deep to help veterans.
Curation project helps our wounded warriors immeasurably
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers archaeologist was called upon to retrieve remains of missing-in-action U.S. servicemen for some six years after the war in Vietnam. [Link]
Good News 4 a Change: Veterans Curation Program
ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – As more American veterans return home, many are finding the transition to civilian life and employment to be difficult.
Now, a unique program started in St. Louis is using the past to help veterans prepare for the future, and that’s Good News 4 a Change. [Link to VCP Home Page]
American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA) presents Board of Directors Award to the VCP Team
On September 25, 2010, at the ACRA conference in Madison, Wisconsin, the St. Louis District VCP Team was presented with individual Board of Directors Awards. [More]
FedCenter offers Cultural Resource Online Training
This course covers all aspects of caring for archeological collections -- the activities dealing with all kinds of archeological collections (i.e., objects, records, reports, and digital data) in all kinds of places (i.e., the field, the archeologist's office, the lab, and the repository.) The information provided is designed to assist those who are interested in or need to learn more about preserving and managing archeological collections over the long term. [More]
New Cultural Resources Program Area Announced
At the request of the federal community, FedCenter has added a new topic to
its program area lineup - Cultural Resources. The Cultural Resources Program
Area addresses the background and available tools and resources for the
management of cultural and historic resources. This includes: preservation
of historic properties, archaeological sites, gravesites, repatriation of
Native American objects, and curation of collections. [More]
Graduation Day at the Veterans Curation Program
On August 6, 2010, the Washington D.C., and St. Louis VCP Labs graduated their first group of veterans, and the Augusta Lab graduated it's second group. The next groups of veterans will be starting at the three VCP labs in October or November of 2010 pending funding. [See slideshow of graduation ceremonies]
Veterans Curation Program preserves past, prepares veterans for the future
Upon their return from the battlefield, the Veterans Curation Program gives them a chance to preserve history as they build new skills. (More...)
Returning Vets Face a New Battle: The Job Market
As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the challenges veterans face returning home and searching for work in a troubled job market. [View Video]
Soldiers in the Laboratory
How archaeology helps returning veterans adjust to civilian life [More] [PDF article]
Uncovering a New Life Back Home
Forensic work in Iraq leads to job skills for veterans in the States. [More]
Digital-Image Management at Mass Gravesites
The Mass Graves Investigation Team captured more than 90,000 images to document the exhumation of victims' remains in northern Iraq. [More]
Witness to Genocide
Forensic archaeologists uncover evidence of a secret massacre—and help convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity. [More]
The Difficulties of Deaccessioning
A Curation crisis is forcing museums and archaeologists to grapple with the vexing problem of how to responsibly dispose of unwanted archaeological items. [More]
35 Who Made A Difference-Smithsonian Nov. 2005 Issue
Dead people tell no tales-but their bones do, when he examines them. For a man who toiled amid some of the most horrific circumstnces imaginable...[More]
Soldiers, Scholars, Stone Bowls, and Old Bottles
Military Archaeological Collections, American's Silent Cultural Treasures. [More]
