Curation Crisis in Archaeology

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This collection management course will introduce students to collections curation, collections care, and collections-based research. Archaeological collections stewardship begins before an archaeologist steps foot into the field and continues well after the recovered collections reach the repository. This course provides students with an understanding of the curation “crisis” using archaeological collections curated at the University Museum as a case study and the responsibilities that archaeologists have to the collections they generate.