Artifact Report, Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in May 2011. The VCP St. Louis laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia.
The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Field School at Biface III Site 12MI18 investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the VCP St. Louis laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Louisville District collection, the same standard procedures and Applied Archaeology Laboratory, Ball State University (AAL) guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, collections were sent to AAL for permanent curation.

The artifact database can be found in tDAR (http://core.tdar.org/dataset/401064).

美国陆军工程兵团（U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE）路易斯维尔辖区的考古藏品于2011年5月被送往退伍军人典藏项目（Veterans Curation Program, VCP）圣路易斯实验室。该VCP圣路易斯实验室是美国陆军工程兵团圣路易斯辖区的考古藏品典藏与管理强制专业中心项目，由位于佐治亚州诺克罗斯的考古承包企业Brockington联合公司（Brockington and Associates, Inc.）负责运营。
下文将阐述针对Biface III遗址12MI18野外调查所获考古材料的重新装盒流程，该流程遵循VCP圣路易斯实验室所采用的标准操作规范。在对美国陆军工程兵团路易斯维尔辖区的所有考古调查藏品进行重新装盒时，均采用统一的标准流程，且遵循博尔州立大学应用考古实验室（Applied Archaeology Laboratory, Ball State University, AAL）的相关指南。本次典藏管理项目完成后，所有藏品将被送往博尔州立大学应用考古实验室进行永久典藏。
该文物数据库可在tDAR平台（http://core.tdar.org/dataset/401064）获取。