Inventory and Analysis of Select Archaeological Collections from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region

Archaeological materials recovered from U.S. Fish and Wildlife properties are curated at a number of facilities in the nine states and two territories (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) that encompass the Southeast Region. As part of the continuing archaeological assessment project for the Southeast Region, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, assessed the curation conditions at five facilities in three states— Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. These five facilities are curating 21 separate collections (195.97 ft3 of artifacts and 8.77 linear feet of associated documentation) from 15 Southeast Region refuges. All collections require at least partial rehabilitation to com ply with federal curation regulations and guidelines.