Ugh! This gives the term "gray literature" a new (and, perhaps richer)
meaning!
Martin Pickands
New York State Museum
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I am currently processing a very large collection of periodical
material
excavated from a frozen privy in the interior of Alaska. I am still
doing the
data entry, and assigning artifact numbers, but we already have more
than 1,700
diagnostic pieces representing more than 50 different titles dating
from 1902
to 1909. I am estimating more than 3,000 diagnostic pieces by the end
and tens
of thousands of non diagnostic fragments.
I am looking for (and so far not finding) sources dealing with
printed
materials as artifacts rather than purely as historical sources or
works
dealing with printed material found in an archaeological context. I
would
appreciate any leads in this direction.
Morgan Blanchard
University of Nevada, Reno