Improving Access to the Human Osteology Collections of the Peabody Museum

改善皮博迪博物馆人类骨学藏品的获取

• 批准号: 8807481
• 负责人: C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
• 金额: $ 19.79万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-07-01 至 1992-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8807481&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Access; Human; Osteology; Collections

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.

皮博迪博物馆收藏的人类骨骼学藏品， 哈佛大学是美国最大和最重要的 在国内有系统地收集其类型。 组成 超过15，000个来自有据可查的考古学的人， 医学和法医调查 这些收藏品构成了 跨文化研究的广泛比较资源， 体质人类学 研究人员对收藏品的需求日益增加， 由于缺乏足够储存空间， 有效利用这些资源。 为了解决这个问题， 博物馆工作人员将重新组织和升级存储 设施，进行库存和保护调查，以及 开发计算机化目录系统。 人类骨骼学收藏是重要的研究资源 因为它们可以揭示变化 人类历史中文化和生物学的关系。