Computerization and Collections Management Upgrading of Archaeological Collections

堪萨斯大学的人类学博物馆正在对他们的考古藏品进行全面改进。无论是史前时期还是历史时期，他们的资产在北部和中原地区都具有优势。这些收藏是中原地区记录最好的收藏之一，它们非常连贯，源于1945至1965年间进行的密切关注的研究项目。这些藏品总共代表了来自平原和平原/草原边界的1800多个遗址。这一项目将标志着从去年资助的一小笔赠款开始的藏品升级工作已经完成。已经取得了重大改进，有了这笔赠款，人类学社区的研究人员将可以获得这些收藏品。北美博物馆面临的主要优先事项之一是适当地管理和管理考古收藏品。通过国家科学基金会的支持，在纠正困扰博物馆和阻碍研究的问题方面可以取得相当大的进展。

The anthropology museum at the University of Kansas is undertaking overall improvements in their archaeology collections. Their holdings have strengths in the Northern and Central Plains for both prehistoric and historic periods. These collections are among the best documented in the central Plains, and are remarkably coherent, stemming as they do from tightly focused research projects carried out between 1945 and 1965. In all, more than 1800 sites from the Plains and Plains/Prairie border are represented in the collections. This project will represent the completion of the upgrading of the collection begun in a small grant funded last year. Significant improvements have already been made and with this grant the collections will be available for researchers in the anthropological community. One of the major priorities facing museums in North America is the proper curation and management of archaeological collections. Through NSF support considerable progess can be made in correcting problems that have plagued museums and hindered research.