Collections Management Policy
Our collections management policy is available HERE.Please email the Operations Director, Amanda Roberts Thompson (arobthom@uga.edu) with any questions.
As an archaeological curation repository, we continually strive to add and improve our capabilities through the addition of improved curation and research technologies and other equipment.
- NAGPRA consultation, collaboration, and compliance
- Traditional care practices
- Use of appropriate stable and archival quality materials
- Temperature and relative humidity control
- LED lights in curation spaces
- Monthly pest management
- Controlled access to repository and intruder security system connected to UGA's Police Department
- Fire prevention measures
- Collection management database and off-site computer server storage
- Computer-controlled artifact photography
- 3D scanning, 3D printing, and 3D videography
- Thin sectioning of ceramics and lithics
- Metal conservation
- Magnetic susceptibility testing
- Isotope analysis preparation
- Phosphate testing
- Microscope and photomicroscopy workstations
- Research library
- Artifact type collection