Artifact Report, Lake Monroe Survey and Excavation Arbitrary Collection 1976-1977

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the Fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis 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 an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia.

For ease of reference, the name provided below was truncated from the original box label, and the investigation referred to as Lake Monroe Survey and Excavation, Arbitrary Collection, 1976-1997, in the artifact inventory catalog and on all final labels. The procedures employed by the St. Louis VCP to re-house the archaeological material from the Lake Monroe Survey and Excavation, Arbitrary Collection, 1976-1997 collection are discussed below. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort, of the USACE, Louisville District collection the same standard procedures and Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University (GBL) guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, collections were sent to GBL for permanent curation.

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2009年秋季被移送至退伍军人藏品管理项目（Veterans Curation Project, VCP）圣路易斯实验室。该圣路易斯实验室隶属于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家中心」项目，由位于佐治亚州诺克罗斯的考古承包企业布罗金顿联合公司（Brockington and Associates）负责运维。

为便于查阅，下文所使用的名称源自原箱标缩写；在藏品清单目录及所有最终标签中，本次调查被标注为「1976-1997年门罗湖调查与发掘、任意采集」项目。下文将详述圣路易斯VCP针对1976-1997年门罗湖调查与发掘、任意采集藏品开展重新收纳装盒的工作流程。在对美国陆军工程兵团路易斯维尔辖区各批次考古调查藏品的重新收纳装盒流程中，所有操作均严格遵循统一标准规程，以及印第安纳大学格伦·A·布莱克考古学实验室（Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, GBL）的规范指南。本典藏管理项目完工后，所有藏品将被移交至GBL进行永久典藏。