Collection Management Report, Perry Creek Associated Documentation

The procedures employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Curation and Archive Analysis Branch, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) to rehouse the archaeological material from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Perry Creek Dam and Reservoir are discussed below.

The first step involved in the rehousing process was to obtain copies of all cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the MCX archivist processing the archival collection. The analytical techniques employed by the University of Nebraska to collect and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the archaeological work that had been conducted on the property. A draft of the report was located in the archival material. There was no original catalog of the artifacts.

This investigation was an archaeological testing of two prehistoric sites, 13PM61 (the Larson Site) and 13PM62 (the Lawrence Vondrak site), as well as the core sampling of a spring bog in Plymouth County, Iowa. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, was to construct a dam and reservoir on the Perry Creek and these sites needed to be tested prior to the construction. The fieldwork was carried out as a joint venture between the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the National Park Service. Dale R. Henning, of the University of Nebraska, served as Principal Investigator during the five-week project in the summer of 1974. Further work was recommended for both sites, as well as the Perry Creek drainage basin, as a whole. The vast majority of material collected from 13PM61 and 13PM62 consisted of prehistoric materials. There were very few historic artifacts.

美国陆军工程兵团圣路易斯分区文物保管与档案分析分部、考古藏品保管与管理强制专家中心（MCX）针对美国陆军工程兵团奥马哈分区佩里溪大坝及水库出土考古藏品实施的重新装盒流程，详述如下。

本次重新装盒流程的第一步，是从负责处理该批档案藏品的MCX档案管理员处，获取与该批藏品相关的全部文化资源报告、人工制品目录表及野外记录副本。研究人员随后审阅了内布拉斯加大学针对该批藏品的采集与处理分析技术，以熟悉该场地此前开展的考古工作。档案材料中留存有一份报告草稿，但未发现该批人工制品的原始目录。

本次调查包含两处史前遗址的考古试掘：13PM61（拉森遗址）与13PM62（劳伦斯·冯德拉克遗址），以及对艾奥瓦州普利茅斯县一处泉沼的核心采样。美国陆军工程兵团奥马哈分区计划在佩里溪流域修建大坝与水库，因此需在施工前对上述遗址开展考古试掘。本次野外作业由内布拉斯加大学林肯分校与美国国家公园管理局联合开展，1974年夏季为期五周的项目由内布拉斯加大学的戴尔·R·亨宁担任首席研究员。报告建议对两处遗址及整个佩里溪流域开展进一步考古工作。从13PM61与13PM62遗址出土的绝大多数藏品均为史前遗物，仅存少量近代人工制品。