Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2498 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144386)
Principal Investigator: Munoz, Cindy
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 35,253
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 9/1/22 - 8/31/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: ARTS
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Ctr For Archeological Resrch
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Consultation/Documentation Grant - HAS Human Remains
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Park Service - NPS
CFDA Link: DOI
15.922
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1, 1.1.4 and 1.4.3; The goals and objectives of this research project include the creation of an inventory of 28 boxes of human skeletal remains and associated funerary objects from 14 archaeological sites that the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) received as a donation in September 2019. The purpose of the inventory is to determine how many human individuals are included in each site and to determine cultural affiliation. The work will allow CAR to update our NAGPRA inventory. Upon completion of the inventory, CAR will continue consultation with Federally Recognized Indian Tribes with the goal of completing NAGPRA Notices of Inventory Completion. The grant will further CAR's efforts to identify Native American human remains and cultural items in our collections through consultation and collaboration with Indian tribes leading towards repatriation. Potential project partners include eight Federally Recognized Indian Tribes from whose aboriginal lands the human remains and associated funerary objects were removed. To achieve the project objectives, each burial will be analyzed to determine what elements are present, identify each element, and enter each element into an Excel catalog. To fully document each burial, a set of Standards Forms for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains (Buikstra and Ubelaker 1994) will be completed. Once the inventory is complete, consultation will continue with the proposed partners with the goal of repatriation. The expected outcomes of this project include a completed inventory of the donated collection of human remains and continuing consultation with affiliated Indian Tribes resulting in an updated NAGPRA inventory, Notices to Repatriate, Notice of Inventory Completion, or, if applicable, and Inventory of Culturally Unidentified Human Remains. The expected outcomes align with the NAGPRA process in that they will further our consultation and collaborations with Indian tribes and will allow CAR to affiliate and repatriate a large collection of remains that are currently unidentified.
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