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Administrative Problems of the River Basin Surveys*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert L. Stephenson
Robert L. Stephenson*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Abstract

Within the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, administration and scientific research are closely integrated but separate efforts. The one depends upon the other and vice versa, throughout, yet they require different kinds of orientation. This basic principle of simultaneous integration and separation can and should be applied to all anthropological research. Problems that must be met in administration are those of finance and the fiscal year, personnel procedures, supply and equipment, geography and logistics, coordination of scientific needs and available funds, and finally specimen and record processing. All of these have their special aspects in the River Basin Surveys but apply in general to all phases of anthropological research.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , January 1963 , pp. 277 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Footnotes

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This paper was given at a symposium entitled “Administrative Problems in Emergency Archaeology” at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, May 3–5, 1962. Submitted with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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* This paper was given at a symposium entitled “Administrative Problems in Emergency Archaeology” at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, May 3–5, 1962. Submitted with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.