Sean and other list members,

This was a horrible, horrible example of bad communication on the part of
the University administration. The boxes were dumped as the campus prepared
to do some construction work. As far as I have heard, they sent only ONE
EMAIL to the woman in charge of curating the collections telling her to
move it or lose it. There was no paper trail, no follow-up to make sure she
got the email, and no signature required either way.

Folks are still pretty upset by it all, including myself... artifacts from
my very very very first field school I worked on in 1987 are now in a
Michigan landfill.

Megan Springate

At 02:50 PM 09/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This is not exactly on the topic at hand, but has been a bee in my
>bonnet for the last few months.  In a June 6, 2003 article in the Globe
>and Mail (Toronto) it was reported that 280 boxes of artifacts were
>accidentally taken from the University of Toronto and dumped in Michigan
>(Toronto sends a significant amount of trash to be dumped in Michigan
>landfills - another issue).  Most of the artifacts are reported to have
>come from "native and colonial sites" dating as far back at the 15th
>century.  I do not know if anyone else has run across this story.  I
>have attached a link below.
>
>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20030606/UARTIN/National
>
>Sean B. Dunham, RPA
>Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.
>Phone:  517-788-3550 / FAX:  517-788-6594
>e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
>http://www.ccrginc.com