Artifact Catalog, Roods Landing (9SW1) Arbitrary 1968-1979

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. Before arriving at the Augusta VCP Laboratory, the artifacts were housed temporarily in the Brockington and Associates laboratory in Norcross, GA. During this time, technicians in Norcross conducted a NAGPRA inventory, which is documented in Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA ) Preliminary Inventory and Summary Report for Fourteen Sites in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; Lowndes , Tishimingo, Itawamba, Clay, and Monroe Counties, Mississippi, and Two Sites at Walter F. George Reservoir Stewart and Clay Counties, Georgia (Hines, et al. 2010). The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections project, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates. After 22 September 2011, the collection was transferred to the Charleston, SC branch of Brockington and Associates and processing was completed by Laboratory Technician Anna Green and Laboratory Supervisor Blair Stec.
The procedures employed by the Augusta VCP and Brockington and Associates laboratories to re-house the archaeological material from the Rood’s Landing (9SW1) Arbitrary 1968-1979 investigation are discussed below. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Mobile District collection, the same standard procedures, including the University of Georgia (UGA), Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, Georgia guidelines, were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection will be sent to the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology, for permanent curation. Additional information regarding this investigation can be found in the Rood’s Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archives collection, which is currently housed at the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology in Athens, Georgia. Information about other investigations conducted at 9SW1 can be found in Collection Management Project Report for Rood’s Landing (9SW1) 1955 and Collection Management Project Report for Rood’s Landing Tom Meltzer (9SW1) 1975 and 1980, both produced by the VCP in 2011.
The procedures employed by the St. Louis VCP to rehouse the archaeological material from the Rood's Landing (9SW1) Arbitrary 1968-1979 investigation are discussed in the Artifact Report. The report can be found in tDAR The artifact database can be found in tDAR at (https://core.tdar.org/document/426886).

2009年秋季，美国陆军工程兵团（U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE）机动工区的考古藏品被移送至位于佐治亚州奥古斯塔的退伍军人藏品保管项目（Veterans Curation Program, VCP）实验室。在运抵奥古斯塔VCP实验室之前，这批文物曾临时寄存于佐治亚州诺克罗斯的布罗金顿联合公司（Brockington and Associates）实验室。在此期间，诺克罗斯实验室的技术人员完成了一项符合《美洲原住民坟墓保护与归还法》（Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, NAGPRA）要求的藏品清查工作，相关内容记录于《田纳西-汤比格比水道沿线14处遗址的NAGPRA初步清查与总结报告》，该批遗址分布于密西西比州朗兹县、蒂希明戈县、伊塔万巴县、克莱县与门罗县，以及佐治亚州斯图尔特县、克莱县境内沃尔特·F·乔治水库的2处遗址（Hines等，2010）。奥古斯塔VCP实验室属于美国陆军工程兵团圣路易斯工区的考古藏品保管与管理强制专家中心项目，该实验室由布罗金顿联合公司派驻人员运营。2011年9月22日之后，这批藏品被转至布罗金顿联合公司南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿分部，后续整理工作由实验室技术员安娜·格林（Anna Green）与实验室主管布莱尔·斯特克（Blair Stec）完成。

下文将阐述奥古斯塔VCP实验室与布罗金顿联合公司实验室针对罗德登陆点遗址（9SW1）1968-1979年任意性发掘出土的考古材料进行重新装箱的相关流程。在对美国陆军工程兵团机动工区的这批藏品开展每一轮发掘整理工作时，均遵循统一的标准流程，其中包括佐治亚大学（University of Georgia, UGA）雅典分校考古实验室制定的操作指南。本藏品保管管理项目完成后，这批藏品将被移交至佐治亚大学雅典分校考古实验室进行永久保管。关于此次发掘的更多信息，可查阅《罗德登陆点遗址（9SW1）1955-1985年档案藏品集》，该档案目前寄存于佐治亚大学雅典分校考古实验室。有关9SW1遗址的其他发掘工作详情，可参阅2011年由VCP编制的《罗德登陆点遗址（9SW1）1955年藏品管理项目报告》与《罗德登陆点汤姆·梅尔策遗址（9SW1）1975年与1980年藏品管理项目报告》。

圣路易斯工区VCP实验室针对罗德登陆点遗址（9SW1）1968-1979年任意性发掘出土的考古材料进行重新装箱的相关流程，已在《文物报告》中详述。该报告可于数字考古记录库（tDAR）中获取，相关文物数据库也可通过tDAR的以下链接查阅：https://core.tdar.org/document/426886。