Infrastructure actions for incentive and inprovement of research carried out in the MAE/USP Collections.

• Grant number: 18/24653-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: March 01, 2019
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Prehistoric Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Vagner Carvalheiro Porto
• Grantee: Vagner Carvalheiro Porto
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Since its inception, in 1989, the MAE-USP has been investing in adequate and proper conditions as regards safe maintaining and keeping of its collections. These actions are complied in observation of international parameters of preventive conservation and include the establishment of a database in order to better manage collections and data access. This project aims to prepare new sets of collections for research, organizing and conditioning them. (AU)