Artifact Catalog, Arbitrary Collections at Bluestone Reservoir

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Alexandria, Virginia laboratory in September 2014. The Alexandria VCP 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 the archaeological contracting firms, Cogstone‐Berger, JV.

The procedures employed to re‐house the archaeological material from the Arbitrary Collections at Bluestone Reservoir investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. In the re‐housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Huntington District collection, the same standard procedures and Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site for permanent curation.
The procedures employed by the St. Louis VCP to rehouse the archaeological material from the Arbitrary Collections at Bluestone Reservoir investigation are discussed in the Artifact Report. The report can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/document/447080