Whoa Nellie! "Why curate all of the material recovered (does it
        contribute directly (or indirectly) to any useful data set)?  If it
was a
        mitigation effort (which is how you defined it), what material
answers the
        mitigation research design and what (material) is never going to be
part of the analysis?" writes Stephen Austin, whose address indicates he's
at a federal agency. By law, if it's a federal project, it ALL gets curated.
Do I hear from one more sector of the Army that we should de-accession
excavated material? Chuck it? An alarming trend in military thought to say
the least.

        John Dendy
        Dynamac Corporation
        Fort Riley, KS