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Archaeology Center Marks Record Volunteer Hours

Excavation volunteers support Verde Archaeology Center work

Excavation volunteers at Fort Verde State Park support Verde Valley Archaeology Center work

Sedona AZ (January 16, 2016) – Enthusiastic volunteers are vital to the Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde, Arizona. They complement, support and expand successful wide-ranging programs and events. Reciprocally, the Center strives to provide people of all ages and backgrounds with an interesting and rewarding learning experience.

Volunteers demonstrate the amount of support an organization has within a community, provide work for short periods of time, and provide support for a wide range of projects. During 2015, the Center had forty six volunteers who provided 15,855 hours of services. These services included conservation work, special events, field surveys, pottery shard analysis, database management, public relations, exhibit design, children’s programs and facilities maintenance. Nearly half of the 2015 volunteer hours involved cataloging and inventorying the Paul Dyck Rockshelter Collection, a collection of over 20,000 items received in 2014.

Inventorying a collection involves identifying each artifact, applying a catalog number, measuring, photographing and entering this information into the catalog database. Experienced volunteers and professionals work with other volunteers to provide assistance and training. The cataloging of the Rockshelter collection will continue into 2016, after which work will begin on the Grey Fox Development (Cottonwood) Collection of over 11,000 artifacts.

Archaeology Center volunteers at work cataloging artifacts in its Camp Verde lab

Archaeology Center volunteers at work cataloging artifacts in its Camp Verde lab

The Verde Valley Archaeology Center uses the value of volunteer time to showcase its community support. The Corporation for National and Community Service has estimated that the value of volunteer time is $23.07 per hour representing what would otherwise be paid to employees in wages and benefits. Using this measure, the Center’s volunteers provided a value of over $365,000 or the equivalent of about eight full-time employees.

The Center offers volunteer opportunities for those with just a couple hours to spare a few times a year or on a long term weekly basis. For more information on the Center’s volunteer opportunities, visit www.vvarchcenter.org or call the Center at 928-567-0066.

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2 Comments

  1. Pete Osterhouse says:

    Good example of what’s right about this being a NO NATIONAL MONUMENT area. Volunteer efforts saving the historic value of areas are almost always thwarted by government (countless examples available), stop thinking that YOU aren’t better than your government bureaucracy. It’s time everybody took personal responsibility instead of pushing it on taxpayers. Thank you volunteers for doing what the government can’t & won’t undertake & would have us believe no need exists without years of fruitless & stupid studies costing hundreds of thousands. Hoozah to you at the center for the selfless work on our behalf.

  2. Jody Murphy, CV says:

    Is nice when people support these types of local efforts and count on me as being pleased as punch to see it in action. Keep up the work and thank you.

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