B -- ARCHEOLOGICAL OVERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

Notice Date

July 27, 2001

Contracting Office

National Park Service, Death Valley National Park, P.O. Box 579, Death Valley, CA 92328

ZIP Code

92328

Solicitation Number

Q8130010056

Response Due

September 11, 2001

Point of Contact

Ray Brinkerhoff, (760) 786-3276, Tim Canaday, (760) 786-3232

Description

The objective of this project is to produce a comprehensive archeological overview for Death Valley National Park (DEVA). The archeological overview and assessment describes and assesses the known variety and potential for, archeological resources in a park area. The overview reviews and summarizes archeological data; the assessment evaluates the data. The report assesses past work and helps determine the need for and design of future studies. This will be a specialized publication, written to professional standards, that will provide baseline data about prehistoric and historic archeology of the park. It will function as a key management tool for present and future NPS administrators and management partners, planners, interpreters, and researchers by providing a context for contemporay and future decision-making processes concerning the parks cultural resources. The Archeological Overview and Assessment will be the primary reference on archeological resources for Death Valley National Park. The preparation of this document requires research and collection of information and materials, organization of those materials, synthesis and interpretation of information, production of a narrative text, and the ability to organize text, photographs, maps, sketches, and other illustrations into a camera-ready document. It is expected that this overview will be produced by an archeologist with demonstrable experience publishing well-received books and/or articles in the subject area, that it will be subject to peer review while under development, and the result will be a narrative of a quality worthy of commercial publication by a major university press. The contractor shall plan and conduct intensive archival research on Death Valley National Park archeology using primary and secondary resources. Research will be accomplished by examining the files, records, and archives of the government agency involved in managing the park (including archives housed at the park, the NPS regional office in Oakland, CA and the Western Archeological and Conservation Center in Tucson, AZ)and of other agencies (i.e., the Bureau of Land Management for background on the new lands added to the park by the Desert Protection Act), corporations, businesses, or Native American groups with interests in the park; archival and library collections; and physical ogjects. The NPS shall work with the Contractor to identify contacts in tribal groups and other federal agencies to facilitate research in their archives. The contractor shall develop the scope of the research in consultation with the Park Archeologist.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010731/BSOL001.HTM (W-208 SN50T1K8)