A Program for Improving Access and Storage Conditions for Research Collections in Archaeology and Dental Anthropology at Arizona State University

在国家科学基金会的支持下，亚利桑那州 州立大学（ASU）人类学系将策划 考古学和体质人类学的主要部分 收藏. 这些材料构成的总资产 其中很大一部分包括200多万个标本， 相关的档案记录，这些共同构成了一个 美国西南部最大的 目前， 这些材料难以使用，因为它们不完全 因此，目录和个别项目很难 定位。 储存条件不太理想， 对物体本身造成危险。 解决这些 问题，大多数考古收藏品以及 大量的牙齿模型将被库存。 的 信息将被输入计算机化索引。 档案 纸质记录将被保存和存储柜， 将购买容器来保存这些物品。 亚利桑那州立大学的收藏品具有重要的人类学意义， 一个重要的研究数据来源。 考古 项目中包含的材料主要来自 西南部和大部分被挖掘出来的CA。900个研究中心， 亚利桑那州中部 这是霍霍坎史前的核心区域 文化 在这个地区，许多城镇，村庄， 个别农场构成了一个dennial地区， 史前北美洲的人类定居点， 拥有最广泛的史前灌溉系统之一 知道的 其中包括的牙科材料 保护项目包括超过15,000个人类牙列模型 代表了大约11,000个人。 在许多情况下 在单个 个人和信息之间的生物关系 个人可用。 这些材料提供了一个理想的基础 用于牙齿发育、磨损、磨耗的纵向研究 疾病往往发生在同一个基因相关的群体中， 人口 这个项目很重要，因为它有助于保护 有价值的科学数据，也因为它将使这个 科学界更容易获得信息。

With support from the National Science Foundation, the Arizona State University (ASU) Department of Anthropology will curate major parts of their archaeology and physical anthropology collections. The overall holdings, of which these materials form a significant part include over 2,000,000 specimens with associated archival records and together these comprise one of the largest in the American Southwest. At the present time, these materials are difficult to use because they are not fully catalogued and individual items are therefore difficult to locate. Storage conditions are less than optimal and this results in risk to the objects themselves. To address these problems, most of the archaeological collections as well as a large series of dental casts will be inventoried. The information will be entered into a computerized index. Archival paper records will be preserved and storage cabinets and containers will be purchased to preserve the objects. The ASU collections are of great anthropological significance and an important source of research data. The archaeological materials included in the project derive primarily from the Southwest and the majority were excavated from ca. 900 sites in central Arizona. This was the prehistoric core area of Hohokam culture. Within this region, numerous towns, hamlets, and individual farmsteads constituted one of the densest areas of human settlement in prehistoric North America and are associated with one of the most extensive prehistoric irrigation systems known. The dental materials which are included in this conservation project include over 15,000 casts of human dentition and represent about 11,000 individuals. In many instances multiple casts were taken over the lifetimes of single individuals and information about biological relationships among individuals is available. These materials provide an ideal base for longitudinal studies of dental development, wear, attrition and disease often among members of a single genetically related population. This project is important both because it will help to preserve valuable scientific data and also because it will make this information more readily accessible to the scientific community.