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The Chaco Collection, jointly owned and managed by
the Maxwell Museum and the National park Service Cultural Research Division,
contains approximately 750,000 artifacts from archaeological field work
in Chaco Canyon. The collections were acquired from the 1940s through
the early 1980s during excavation, testing, stabilization and survey of
sites in the canyon and surrounding areas.
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THE COLLECTIONS consist of ceramics,
lithics and faunal remains, ground stone tools and hammerstones, scientific
samples, human burials, stone, shell and bone ornaments, organic materials
and a small collection of historic materials from Navajo sites in the
area.
The collection also includes archival materials containing unpublished
papers, field records, student papers, the core of which was collected
by Gordon Vivian, archaeologist for the National Park Service in Chaco
Canyon during the 1950s and 1960s, and subsequently donated to the Chaco
Collection.
The archives include companion site files for the projects completed
during the Chaco Project, from 1971 to 1983, a reference library, a black
and white photo collection containing 30,000 images, a 4,500 image slide
library and a map collection generated from archaeological field work
in the canyon.
For information on Maxwell Museum
of Anthropology Chaco Collection contact:
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
MSC01 1050
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
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