Archaeological Investigation Standards and Guidelines
For Background Research, Field Methodologies, Technical Reports, and Curation
This is a living version of the November 2023 OSA Guidelines for archaeological work conducted by consultants and researchers in North Carolina. Minor updates may appear in this online version that will not appear in the PDF. These updates will be noted below.
Please explore the contents of this document below by selecting a chapter, or download a PDF version!
Updates Notification
- 9/25/2024: Because the NPS Managing Archeological Collections website is down, we have added PDF prints of the page (done 10/30/23) in Part 2 for Chapters 5 & 6 in Artifact Sampling and in Part 4 for Chapters 5 & 6 in Discard and Sampling, and Chapter 8 in Artifact Labeling.