Ground Stone (Material Keyword)
Lithic artifact formed or finished by polishing the body or edges with an abrasive
8,326-8,350 (10,172 Records)
The Hosterman site, named for John B. Hosterman, owner of the property, is located in sec. 36, T. 119 N., R. 79 W., Potter County, S. Dak., on a high bluff on the east bank overlooking the Missouri River about 21;2 miles north of Whitlocks Crossing. It is on the western margins of the Coteau du Missouri, "that part of the Missouri Plateau section of the Great Plains province which lies east of the Missouri River." The name of the Coteau dates back to the days of the French fur traders. The...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 36: Archeological Investigations at the Hickey Brothers Site (39LM4), Big Bend Reservoir, Lyman County, South Dakota (1964)
The Hickey Brothers site (39LM4) was excavated during the summer of 1958 as part of the investigations of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, within the projected Big Bend Reservoir of central South Dakota. The site was approached with every expectation of adding materially to the corpus of data bearing upon the "middle period" of village occupation along the Missouri main stem. The Hickey Brothers site appeared to be particularly important because it was fortified in a...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 37: Good Soldier Site (39LM238), Big Bend Reservoir, Lyman County, South Dakota (1964)
In July of 1958 a field party of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, spent 14 days conducting archeological excavations at the Good Soldier site (39LM238), a prehistoric Indian camp site in the Big Bend Reservoir area, South Dakota. The site was first recorded and tested in 1956 by a survey team of the Missouri Basin Project under the direction of Harold A. Huscher (Huscher and McNutt, 1958). The 1958 investigations were supervised by the writer; James J. Stanek acted as field...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 38: Archeological Investigations in the Toronto Reservoir Area, Kansas (1964)
The Toronto Dam and Reservoir, a flood-control and conservation project of the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, is located on the Verdigris River in Greenwood and Woodson Counties, southeastern Kansas (see fig. 59) . The dam is a rolled, earthfill structure, 4,712 feet in length and 90 feet in height, above the river channel. It is 3% miles south of the town of Toronto in Woodson County, Kans., 55 miles north of the Oklahoma border, and 75 miles west of the Missouri border. It...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 39: An Interpretation of Mandan Culture History (1967)
This study presents the results of a field excavation and subsequent research project which investigated the major hypothesis that Mandan Indian culture emerged about A.D. 1500 under the impact of trade and contact with semisedentary village peoples from the Central Plains, and with adjacent pedestrian nomads. The research began with an intensive analysis of the material from the Huff Site (32M011) in the upper Middle Missouri area. Huff is a prehistoric Indian site enclosed by a rectangular...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 5: The Hodges Site (1953)
The excavation of the Hodges site was undertaken during August 1947, because the site was being looted by workmen from construction projects nearby. The site actually was not in danger of inundation but was being destroyed as completely as it would have been had the site fallen within the pool area. Secondary factors were to aid the geologist in determining the date of an alluvial deposit through cultural material and to obtain and record additional archeological evidence for determining...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 7: Archeological Investigations in the oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, 1950-52 (1954)
The Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program is a cooperative plan of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Park Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army. It was formulated, through a series of interbureau agreements, for the purpose of recovering archeological and paleontological remains which would otherwise be lost as a result of the numerous projects for flood control, irrigation, hydroelectric power, and...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 8: Excavations in the McNary Reservoir Basin Near Umatilla, Oregon (1957)
The archeological sites described herein were excavated during August and early September of 1948 in the McNary Reservoir, as part of the River Basin Surveys' program for the salvage of scientific and historic remains from areas to be flooded by the dams being built or to be built by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, and the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. McNary Reservoir itself will occupy the Columbia River from Umatilla, Oregon, up to some 12 miles beyond...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 9: Archeological Investigations in the Heart Butte Reservoir Area North Dakota (1954)
The investigations upon which this report is based were carried out as a part of the inter-agency salvage program in the Missouri Basin and reflect the cooperation of a number of agencies and individuals. The work was instigated by the plan of the Bureau of Reclamation to construct the Heart Butte Dam, a unit of the comprehensive water-resources development program under the Pick-Sloan plan. The dam, now completed, is on the Heart River south of Glen Ullin, North Dakota., and is designed to...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 1-6 (1953)
The Inter-Agency program for the recovery of archeological and paleontological remains which would otherwise be lost as a result of the numerous projects for Hood control, irrigation, hydroelectric installations, and navigation improvements in the river basins of the United States got under way in 1946 as a cooperative effort on the part of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army. Preliminary steps...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 21-24 (1961)
The four papers comprising the present volume report the results of four excavations in three reservoir areas. One, the Texarkana, is located in northeastern Texas on the Sulphur River; the second, the Coralville, in east-central Iowa on the Iowa River; the third, the McNary Reservoir, on the Columbia River between the States of Washington and Oregon; and, the fourth, the Sheep Island site and mid-Columbia River valley. All four projects were carried on by the River Basin Surveys of the...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 26-32 (1963)
The seven reports which comprise the present volume of River Basin Surveys Papers pertain to work which was done in four reservoir areas in the Missouri Basin. Two of the reservoirs are located in North Dakota, one in Montana, and one in Kansas. The North Dakota reservoirs are the Garrison on the main stem of the Missouri River, located some distance above Bismarck, and the Jamestown on the James River above the town of Jamestown in the eastern part of the State. The Montana reservoir is the...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 33-38 (1964)
These papers include reports on archaeological sites surveyed and excavated as part of the Smithsonian Institute's River Basin Survey. Numbers 33-38 include sites from salvage archaeology projects from the construction of the Oahe Reservoir and Big Bend Reservoir in South Dakota and the Toronto Reservoir in Kansas.
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 7 Archaeological Investigations in the Oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, 1950-51 (1954)
The accompanying report on Archeological Investigations in the Oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, is Paper No.7 in the River Basin Surveys Papers and constitutes the second Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin to be devoted to results of the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program. It is the first detailed, technical report to be issued covering a completed series of excavations carried on by the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution. The area where the...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 9-14 (1958)
The six reports which fonn the contents of this volume of the River Basin Surveys Papers are based on the results of field investigations carried on as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Three of the articles are concerned with projects in the Missouri Basin and three with studies made in the Georgia-Florida area. Three reservoirs were involved in the Missouri Basin and two in Georgia-Florida. The work at two Missouri Basin reservoirs was done by field parties under the...
River, Rain, or Ruin: Intermittent Prehistoric Land Use Along the Middle Colorado River (1994)
This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery and analysis for the Archer site, AZ P:4:22 (ASM), located on the north bank of the Little Colorado River, near Holbrook, Arizona. The work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), to mitigate the adverse impacts of building an earthen levee on and adjacent to the site. The proposed levee is a water-control feature that is intended to protect the residents of Holbrook from periodic flooding of the Little Colorado River....
Riverton Site, IL (11CW170) 1961 Mollusca data (1916)
Bivalve and gastropod remains were excavated under the direction of Howard D. Winters during June 1961 at the Riverton Site, Illinois (11CW170). Remains were screened with unspecified mesh size; however, it is presumed that 1/4" mesh was used. Five 5 foot squares were excavated. Levels were excavated in 6" increments. Dr. Paul Parmalee analyzed the bivalves. Dr. Parmalee only recorded attributes for the following variables: taxon, and the number of identified specimens.
Riverton Site, IL (11CW170) 1961 vertebrate fauna (1961)
Vertebrate faunal remains excavated under the direction of Howard D. Winters during June 1961 at the Riverton Site, Illinois (11CW170). Remains were screened with unspecified mesh size; however, it is presumed that 1/4" mesh was used. Dr. Paul Parmalee analyzed the faunal remains. Dr. Parmalee only recorded attributes for the following variables: taxon, element, completeness (whole vs fragmentary), the number of identified specimens, and miscellaneous comments.
Riverton Site, IL (11CW170) 1963 vertebrate fauna (1963)
Vertebrate faunal remains excavated at the Riverton Site, Illinois (11CW170) under the direction of Joseph R. Caldwell during July and August 1963. Remains were hand troweled and some features were screened with unspecified mesh size (it is presumed that 1/4" mesh was used). Dr. Paul Parmalee analyzed the faunal remains. Dr. Parmalee only recorded attributes for the following variables: taxon, element, completeness (whole vs fragmentary), the number of identified specimens, and miscellaneous...
Riverton Site, IL (11CW170) Project
The Riverton Site is a Late Archaic shell midden located north east of the town of Palestine, Illinois. The site is situated between the Wabash River to the east and an abandoned channel to the west. Prehistorically the area site may have been an island. Dr. Paul Parmalee analyzed the faunal remains. For vertebrate remains, Dr. Parmalee only recorded attributes for the following variables: taxon, element, completeness (whole vs fragmentary), the number of identified specimens, and...
Road Connector Right-Of-Way (1983)
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Road's End, Lincoln County, Oregon: a Preliminary Cultural Resource Assessment (1975)
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Roadmap Village (LA 45157) - Unit 1 Summary (2007)
Unit 1 is a portion of a room located on the east end of the three contiguous rooms excavated to floor this field season. Unit 3 is directly west and Unit 2 is diagonally to the southwest. To the east is a badly looted room and the room to the north may be mostly intact. Unit 1 and the other two excavated units are located at the highest point on the block of rooms that forms the pueblo. We selected these rooms for excavation because we wanted to understand the construction sequence in the...
Roadmap Village (LA 45157) - Unit 10 Summary (2012)
Unit 10 consists of a two story pueblo room near the center of Roadmap Village. No hearth or other domestic feature was encountered in Unit 10, suggesting that the room (or at least its first story) was not residential in nature. Vented V-seams were found in the north and east walls, suggesting some social connection between the residents of Unit 10 and those of the rooms to the east (not excavated) and north (Unit 7). A partially filled doorway was encountered in the room’s west wall. Unit 10...
Roadmap Village (LA 45157) - Unit 101 Summary (2008)
Unit 101 is a trench excavated at Roadmap Village, LA 45157, during the 2008 field season of the Mimbres Prehistoric Landscapes Project. It exposes part of an outdoor plaza area (Locus 3) and part of a pueblo room (Locus 2). We excavated the trench in order to determine where the large northern plaza at the site articulated with the pueblo rooms to the south, information that would help us locate and define rooms to focus on for more complete excavation.