Evaluating Mississippian Period Hunting Strategies at the Rutherford-Kizer Site

The use of existing collections in answering new questions is timely and important. Museum curators and archivists across the country are faced with tight curation budgets and limited storage space, so that it is not always justifiable to excavate sites to collect specimens Using existing collections for modern research is important on several levels. Stankowski (1998) notes that artifacts "spend 99% of their time in storage," and "the key to finding funding for curation is to actively use the collections." The Arizona Governor's Archaeology Advisory Commission (2006) suggests "encouraging or even requiring more use of existing collections rather than new fieldwork" as a solution to the curation crisis. It is difficult to persuade policymakers, private citizens, and corporations to fund curation of collections that are never seen by the general public nor used for research by scientists.

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• “Garden hunting” in the American tropics

  Open Access•Olga F Linares•Human Ecology•1976

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• Native American ‘garden agriculture’ in southeastern North America

  C Margaret Scarry, John F Scarry•World Archaeology•2005

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• Midden cultivation in prehistoric Britain

  Eba Guttmann•World Archaeology•2005

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• A social archaeology of garden plots in the Bronze Age of northern and western Britain

  Robert Johnston•World Archaeology•2005

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• A Method of Calculating the Dietary Percentage of Various Food Animals Utilized by Aboriginal Peoples

  Open Access•Theodore E White•American Antiquity•1953

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