Ashenafi G. Zena (Ph.D.) is the Archaeology Collections Manager at the SHSND. Dr. Zena manages more than 12 million artifacts representing 13,500 years of human history in the Northern Plains of North America. He is currently working on a project that aims to summarize, organize and assemble archaeological collections. This document will allow archaeologists and other scholars, culturally affiliated groups, and members of the public to have better access to SHSND’s collections for research, publications, exhibitions, education, and other forms of interpretive work.