Notice2023-28929
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Nashville, TN, and University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
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Published
January 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District in cooperation with the University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology (UTK) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Stewart County, TN.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 406-407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28929]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037176; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Nashville District, Nashville, TN, and University of Tennessee,
Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville
District in cooperation with the University of Tennessee, Department of
Anthropology (UTK) has completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no
cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary
objects and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Stewart County, TN.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after February 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Crystal Geiger, Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Nashville District, 110 9th Avenue South, Room A-405, Nashville, TN
37203, telephone (615) 736-2472, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5734252e2423363b793b7930323e3032251722243634327936253a2e793a3e3b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0f6c7d767c7b6e63216321686a66686a7d4f7a7c6e6c6a216e7d627621626663">[email protected]</span></a>
and Dr. Ozlem Kilic, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of
Tennessee, 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, telephone
(865) 974-2454, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a0cfcbc9ccc9c3e0d5d4cb8ec5c4d5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="88e7e3e1e4e1ebc8fdfce3a6edecfd">[email protected]</span></a> and <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5325233232132627387d363726"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9aeceafbfbdaefeef1b4fffeef">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District.
Description
In 1959, Michael D. Coe and F. William Fischer of the University of
Tennessee undertook archeological research at the Stone site (40SW23)
prior to the inundation of Lake Barkley. Coe and Fisher documented
extensive looting and encountered few undisturbed areas of the site.
Artifacts indicate a Mississippian occupation. Notices of Inventory
Completion were published in the Federal Register on July 19, 2017 (82
FR 33155-33156), July 6, 2020 (85 FR 40314), and May 24, 2023 (88 FR
33635) listing human remains and associated funerary objects from this
site that have been repatriated. Subsequently, 19 additional funerary
objects associated with these individuals were discovered in University
of Tennessee collections. The collection is stored in the McClung
Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. The 19 associated
funerary objects are four lots of faunal bones, four lots of lithics,
four lots of ceramic sherds, two lots of botanical material, three lots
of coal fragments, and two dog mandible fragments.
In 1959, human remains representing, at minimum, six individuals
were removed from the Shamble site (40SW41) in Stewart County, TN.
Michael D. Coe and F. William Fischer of the University of Tennessee
undertook archeological research at the Shamble site prior to the
inundation of Lake Barkley. Artifacts indicate Woodland and
Mississippian occupation and a mound at the site dates to the
Mississippian period. The collection is stored in the McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. The human remains belong to
four adults of indeterminate sex and two subadults. The 23 associated
funerary objects are one lot of lithics, three lots, 15 faunal bones,
three lots of ceramics sherds, and one lot of coal fragments. (A Notice
of Inventory Completion for additional human remains and associated
funerary objects from this site was published in the Federal Register
on July 19, 2017 (82 FR 33155-33156). The repatriation and reburial of
those human remains and associated funerary objects took place in
August of 2018.)
Aboriginal Land
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
were removed from known geographic locations. These locations are the
aboriginal lands of one or more Indian Tribes. The following
information was used to identify the aboriginal land: a final judgment
of the Indian Claims Commission or the United States Court of Claims
and treaties.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
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Indian Tribes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of six individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 42 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at
the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and
any Indian Tribe.
<bullet> The associated funerary objects described in this notice
were removed from the aboriginal land of the Cherokee Nation; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land
Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February
2, 2024. If competing requests for disposition are received, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Nashville District is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and
10.11.
Dated: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-28929 Filed 1-2-24; 8:45 am]
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