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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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