Date of Award
5-2025
Culminating Project Type
Plan C Paper
Styleguide
other
SAA
Degree Name
Cultural Resources Management Archaeology: M.S.
Department
Anthropology
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Mark Muniz
Second Advisor
Debra Gold
Third Advisor
Haley Rush
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
NAGPRA implementation built environment survey regulations
Abstract
This Master of Science Portfolio is a culmination of three Cultural Resources Management Archaeology projects. Project 1 is an inventory of human skeletal remains for the purpose of NAGPRA repatriation. Twenty-one burials, representing 24 individuals, were analyzed for minimum number of individuals, age and sex estimation, and recordation of general pathologies. The inventory included four adult females, three adult males, four adult probable females, two probable adult males, one adolescent, one subadult, two infants, one fetus, and six adults for whom neither age nor sex could be determined. The results were included in two Notices of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register in 2024 and 2025.
For Project 2, I participated in a built environment survey and documentation for a Department of Transportation roadway improvement project in Canadian County, Oklahoma. The built environment historic resources survey documentation of 25 historic-age (built in 1979 or earlier) building complexes, 11 buildings, five structures, and one streetscape that consisted of approximately 20 resources in the downtown Calumet, Oklahoma, comprising 60 total documented resources. The resources were documented on Historic Preservation Resource Identification forms. All surveyed built environment resources were evaluated for National Register of Historic Places eligibility and recommended not eligible for inclusion under Criteria A, B, C, or D.
Project 3 consisted of tracking historic preservation and environmental regulations, both state and federal, for input and analysis in an internal database for an environmental consulting firm in the United States. The most relevant federal regulations include the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Clean Water Act Section 404, and Section 4 of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act. Within Oklahoma, tracked regulations included the Oklahoma Antiquities Law and the Burial Desecration Law.
Recommended Citation
Wright, Kimberly A., "CULTURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CULMINATING PROJECTS PORTFOLIO: A NAGPRA INVENTORY; A BUILT ENVIRONMENT SURVEY; AND TRACKING REGULATORY UPDATES" (2025). Culminating Projects in Cultural Resource Management. 60.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/crm_etds/60
Comments/Acknowledgements
This is dedicated to my favorite people, Danielle, Lo, and Jos, for inspiring me to always be better. I would like to thank my Committee Chair, Dr. Mark Muniz, for pushing me to the finish line and Dr. Robbie Mann for all his wisdom in Archaeological Theory. I would like to thank my CRM mentor and Committee Member, Haley Rush, for her patience and encouragement. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge my NAGPRA mentors at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Heidi Davis, Dr. Paul Sandberg, and Susie Fishman-Armstrong. And finally, I would like to thank my family and my friends for supporting me throughout this journey.