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MuseumsSite Name: Archaeology and Paleontology Curation Center
Country: United States
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State: California Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Palm Springs, CA  Nearest Village: Twentynine Palms, CA
Latitude: 34.187300N  Longitude: 116.054W
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Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, San Bernardino County, California, USA.
The climate of the Mojave Desert has preserved many prehistoric sites and artifacts. Within the boundaries of the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, there are over 1600 archaeological sites. Taking into consideration the cost of moving finds outside of the area, and the interest in having a base for study and curation when new sites are discovered, the Natural Resource and Environmental Affairs Division of the Marine Corp funded this curation center and small museum.

Service personnel and their families, as well as students and other visitors to the base are welcome to visit the center Tuesday through Thursday afternoons and the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month. Visitors will wish to call ahead of any visit for details at telephone 760-830-7641. The location given is the main gate, where visitors to the base are required to register.

Note: Note: See for attached article on the opening of this center, Jan 2007.
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Mojave Archaeology / Paleontology Curation Center Opens by bat400 on Tuesday, 23 January 2007
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Story by: Lance Cpl. Katelyn A. Knauer

MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.(Jan. 17, 2007) -- Offering insight and educational opportunity for those stationed at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, a ribbon was cut opening the doorway of the new Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center by Commanding General, Brig Gen. Douglas M. Stone, Wednesday.

The Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Division was authorized money to begin design work on the center more than two years ago.
“We analyzed the costs and determined that it was actually cheaper for us to build a repository at MCAGCC than it was to rent space for our artifacts at another Federally-approved facility,” said John Hale, archeologist and collections manager. “The result is our new Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center. It is essentially a warehouse with tight temperature and humidity controls. In addition to storing the artifacts, bones, stone tools, and other materials that we recover during the excavation process, we store all of our records there, including field notes, maps, photographs, and reports.

“Furthermore, we have some limited interpretive space in the entrance hallway and scattered throughout the building covering different periods in time,” he continued.

Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, who is in charge of the center, is also in charge of making sure sites are excavated before units continue training in certain areas.

For additional information about the center and the methods for surveying prior to building projects or changes to the use of areas within the base see http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/8B64D48D4DCB508F852572680060B28B?opendocument.
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