OUR SERVICES
CHRIS provides specialized cultural heritage services for projects that require more than a standard approach. We combine research, archaeology, anthropology, osteology, historical expertise, and community knowledge to investigate complex histories, document cultural resources, and develop practical solutions.
Our work ranges from historical and provenance research to human remains analysis, cemetery preservation, cultural heritage monitoring, legacy collections, and sensitive heritage concerns. Whether the challenge involves a person, place, collection, burial ground, or unresolved history, CHRIS brings together the expertise needed to understand the evidence and determine a path forward.
Research, Documentation & Cultural Heritage Advisory
CHRIS conducts in-depth research and provides specialized guidance to help organizations and communities understand and address complex cultural heritage questions.
Services include archival and historical research, genealogical and descendant research, provenance and acquisition research, community and institutional histories, legacy and sensitive collections research, stewardship planning, technical review, project development, and multidisciplinary project coordination.
CHRIS also provides osteological analysis and professional reporting for projects involving human skeletal remains. Our research and documentation can support decisions involving identification, affiliation, stewardship, transfer, disposition, and other appropriate resolutions for cultural materials and human remains.
Cemeteries & Historic Places
CHRIS helps organizations and communities address complex cultural heritage questions that require specialized research, technical expertise, and thoughtful planning.
Services include legacy and sensitive collections research, documentation review, provenance investigation, stewardship planning, stakeholder and community research, project development, technical review, and multidisciplinary project coordination. CHRIS also provides osteological analysis and professional reporting for projects involving human skeletal remains, integrating biological findings with historical, archaeological, and documentary evidence when appropriate.
Our research and documentation can also support organizations evaluating affiliation, stewardship, transfer, disposition, or other appropriate resolutions involving cultural materials and human remains.
Monitoring & Heritage Protection
CHRIS provides professional on-site monitoring and response services when construction, infrastructure, development, natural events, or other activities may affect cultural resources.
Services include archaeological and cemetery monitoring, construction monitoring, field documentation, cultural resource identification, unexpected-discovery response, coordination with project teams and appropriate specialists, and technical reporting.
CHRIS also provides emergency heritage response, including rapid assessment, documentation, stabilization and recovery support when historic places, cemeteries, collections, records, or other cultural resources are unexpectedly threatened or damaged.
