In response to Ashley Long's post, can anyone provide a little more information on this practice, which I am not familiar with. I appreciate her extensive reference list, but I'm hoping to get a quick, but a bit more detailed, overview of the matter.  I have several immediate questions:

What is the purpose behind reburying the artifacts?  Is it to address the curation problem?  Is it an accommodation to local community sentiment?
Who does the reburying, and where?
Is the area for reburial exactly the same as the recovery area?  How are extensive surface collections handled?
How is additional disturbance of archaeological resources avoided during the reburial?
Is the location of the reburying documented so that the artifacts can be recovered in future if necessary?
Is this just done for identification (Phase I) surveys, where more detailed work is anticipated in the same area in the future, or is it for all types of investigation?
Artifacts "such as lithics": what else?  All artifacts?
Are there agreed minimal recording standards? What are they, and agreed by whom?
How does this practice interface with SAA, SHA, ACRA, and RPA ethical and professional standards?


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Subject: Catch-and-Release Archaeology

Hello everyone,

My name is Ashley Long, and I am a graduate student in archaeology at the University of Nevada, Reno. I have been working with Dr. Sarah Cowie and local tribal members and organizations on a collaborative archaeology project, and am extending this to some of my coursework. I am currently working on a paper reviewing the shift towards "catch and release"
archaeology in CRM today, where artifacts such as lithics are reburied at the sites as soon as possible.  This involves minimal recording in the
field and precludes more in-depth analyses like sourcing.   There are
certainly trade-offs for this practice.  My particular interest is in how these methods are changing the relationships between archaeologists and local communities.

Does anyone know of any other published or gray literature that addresses this practice? From what I understand it happens occasionally in California and is becoming more common in Nevada.

Any references or keywords you can point me toward would be most appreciated, as would any additional contacts that you think might help.

Here is a list of what I have found so far:

Gonzalez, Sara L. and Darren Modzelewski, Lee M. Panich, and Tsim D.
Schneider

2006 Archaeology for the Seventh Generation. *American Indian Quarterly*
30(3/4): 388-415



Lightfoot, Kent G., Rob Q. Cuthrell, Chuck J. Striplen, and Mark G. Hylkema

2013 Rethinking the Study of Landscape Management: Practices Among Hunter-Gatherers in North America. *American Antiquity* 78(2).



Maldonado, Doris Julissa

2011 *Reconfiguring Archaeological Practice: Lessons from Currust , Honduras*. Ph.D dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.



Modzelewski, Darren and Sara Gonzalez.

2007 Creating Trails Through Traditions: An Update on the Kashaya Pomo Interpretive Trail, Fort Ross State Historic Park. *Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, Vol. 20: 23-26.*



Todd, L.C. and P.C. Burnett

2003 Archaeological Catch and Release: Expanding Data Capture for Archaeological Catch and Release: Expanding Data Capture for Non-Collection Survey. Poster Presented at the 61st Plains Anthropological Conference.



Voss, Barbara L.

2012 Curation as Research: A Case Study in Orphaned and Underreported Archaeological Collections.  *Archaeological Dialogues* 19(2): 145-169.



Best,

Ashley M. Long

Graduate Student

Department of Anthropology

University of Nevada, Reno

http://www.unr.edu/anthropology/people/graduate-students/ashley-long