casethejointfirst: Collector Collaboration Last week, two colleagues and I visited a collector that
casethejointfirst:Collector Collaboration Last week, two colleagues and I visited a collector that I met on a plane on the way to Sante Fe, NM for the Paleoamerican Odyssey conference. The collector had genuine concerns for what would become of his collection upon his death. He knew that he had some Paleoindian artifacts from a site that, while previously recorded, had not been recognized as having a Paleoindian component. Upon analyzing the collection, it became clear to my colleagues and I that this collection represented a significant prehistoric (and historic) archaeological site. The collection consisted of well over 500 diagnostic projectile points, and came entirely from a single field in Western Pennsylvania. All of the artifacts from this field were acquired through avocational pedestrian survey (NO SUBSURFACE DIGGING). The collector was very open to us studying, analyzing, and writing up any data we could gather from his collection. While he has a considerable bit of cultural heritage boxed up in his home, I consider him a “good guy” who only has enrichment and learning in mind. We will visit him again to continue studying the collection.Thoughts? -- source link