Improving Access to the Human Osteology Collections of the Peabody Museum

哈佛大学皮博迪博物馆（Peabody Museum）的人类骨学藏品是美国同类藏品中规模最大、最重要的系统藏品之一。它由15,000多人组成，这些人来自有充分记录的考古、医学和法医调查。这些收藏为体质人类学的跨文化研究提供了广泛的比较资源。研究人员对馆藏的需求日益增加，而缺乏足够的存储空间，使得这些馆藏难以有效利用。为了解决这个问题，博物馆工作人员将重组和升级存储设施，进行库存和保存调查，并开发计算机目录系统。人类骨学收藏是重要的研究资源，因为它们可以揭示人类历史上文化和生物学之间不断变化的关系。

The human osteology collection housed at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, is one of the largest and most important systematic collections of its type in the country. It consists of over 15,000 individuals from well documented archaeological, medical, and forensic investigations. These collections form a broad comparative resource for cross cultural research in physical anthropology. The increasing demands on the collection by researchers and lack of adequate storage space have made it difficult to utilize these collections effectively. To remedy this problem, museum personnel will reorganize and upgrade the storage facilities, conduct an inventory and conservation survey, and develop a computerized catalogue system. Human osteology collections are significant research resources because of the light they can shed on the changing relationships of culture and biology through human history.