River Basin Surveys Reports, Midwest Archeological Center

DOCUMENT Full-Text National Park Service.

This report is submitted to provide the Field Committee with information regarding the archeological studies of the Smithsonian Institution within the Missouri Basin in cooperation with the National Park Service and other federal and state agencies during fiscal year 1965.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the tenth in a series of annual reports summarizing current field activities within the Missouri River Basin. Twenty-two field parties, representing one federal and five state agencies, participated in the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program within the Missouri Basin during the summer of 1965. Thirteen parties were fielded by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, nine of which worked within the Garrison, Oahe, Big Bend, Fort Randall and Gavins Point...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institute, Missouri River Project.

This is the eleventh in a series of annual reports summarizing current field activities within the Missouri River Basin under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Twelve field parties, representing one federal and four state agencies, participated in the Missouri Basin program during the summer of 1966. Seven parties were fielded by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution, four of which operated along the mainstem in the Upper Oahe and Big Bend...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the twelfth in a series of annual reports summarizing current field and research activities within the Missouri River Basin under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys research continued apace in 1967 although field operations were somewhat curtailed for fiscal reasons. Three River Basin Surveys field parties operated within the Missouri Basin during the season and one made a brief reconnaissance of the Garrison...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the thirteenth in a series of annual reports summarizing current field and research activities of the Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Surveys, under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Smithsonian River Basin Surveys operations continued throughout 1968 at the Lincoln headquarters and two parties were fielded during the 1968 season in order to continue or extend work undertaken previously in the Dakotas. One party conducted a shoreline survey, including...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution. Missouri Basin Project.

The 1957 summer field season began the twelfth year of continuous operation of the Missouri Basin Project and of the Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. The first eleven years have been outstandingly productive despite several setbacks. The twelfth year began with an even more encouraging prospect than many of the previous years. The areas within the Missouri Basin that have been or soon will be lost forever to scientific archeological investigation due to dam...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, NE.

The primary purpose of these informal reports is to outline the current work in the Missouri Basin and discuss some of the general problems involved. Response to such reports in the past has been encouraging and helpful, even aiding in the settling of some future policies. We hope we will, with this report, continue to receive response and constructive criticisms that will assist in getting the most out of the Salvage Program. This is one of the most crucial periods in the entire Inter-Agency...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institute, Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, NE.

This is a brief summary of field work and a preliminary statement of results for the seventeenth consecutive summer field season of the Missouri Basin Project. In the past this progress report has elicited many constructive comments. We hope that it will continue to do so - but there is also an additional purpose. As the result of a number of circumstances, excavation has far out-shipped the publication of results. Of course, such a lag is often inevitable, however as a stop-gap, this summary is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the eighth in a series of reports presented to provide a resume of current archeological work within the Missouri River Basin. During the summer of 1963 there were twenty-one field parties, representing one Federal and six State agencies, working in the Missouri Basin under the aegis of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. A further breakdown shows that the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, had twelve field parties working in reservoirs and proposed canal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the ninth in a series of reports presented to provide a summary of current field activities within the Missouri River Basin. Twenty-three field parties, representing one federal and seven state agencies, participated in the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program within the Missouri Basin during the summer of 1964. Fourteen parties were fielded by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution. Eleven of these worked within the Oahe, Big Bend, and Fort Randall reservoirs...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Hubert Smith.

This document is a manuscript prepared by the Smithsonian Institution for a special article in the Quarterly Progress Report, published by the Missouri Basin Field Committee. Giving an overview of the mission and goals of the Missouri Basin Project through the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program, this article addresses the vital importance of historic site recovery and excavation. These sites produce evidence of historic contact between settlers, explorers and native groups unrecorded in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Hubert Smith.

The investigation and analysis of the archives of Fort Stevenson are part of studies now under way pertaining to the new reservoir area, which have as an objective the proper recognition of historical values and their conservation. For this, by Act of Congress, the National Park Service of the United States is responsible. These historic resources, for the areas in which the various federal agencies are at work, are similar in importance to prehistoric and paleontological sites for which the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This handbook is designed to outline procedures for processing specimens brought into this laboratory. It is based upon more than a dozen years of experience with these specimens and is intended as a guide for processing of a maximum quantity of items within a minimum of time. It is specifically intended to provide the processors in this laboratory with a written guide to their duties and with written instructions as to how to perform each of the many specialized tasks that arise in processing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

Most of the papers and excerpts in this book were collected during the early days of the Missouri Basin Project. In some cases publication data apparently was not written down, or was written down only in part. Many of the specimen processing methods outlined here were developed specifically for museum use and are much better suited to that than to vastly different emergency laboratory demands. For this reason they have not been used as sources for this project. In fact, the only material in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

The purpose of this book is to keep together certain papers that in most cases are copies of material already on file elsewhere, but still may have some local value. Their arrangement follows no special order or design. Documents include: Missouri Basin Project Staff Memoranda, Missouri Basin Project Field Memoranda, Carbon-14, Dendrochronology, Thomas Riggs Focus: Additional Data, Middle Missouri Pottery Wares and Types, Missouri River Basin Fauna, Handwritten List of Reservoirs, Catalog of...

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The purpose of this book is to keep together certain papers that in most cases are copies of material already on file elsewhere, but still may have some local value. Their arrangement follows no special order or design.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document includes the first five chronology program statements for the Missouri Basin Project. The Program, as it now stands, was developed during the winter of 1958 by the Personnel of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution; the laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska; and the Nebraska State Historical Society; all of Lincoln, Nebraska; and the National Park Service, Region Two Office, in Omaha, Nebraska. Concern for an over-all program of chronology grew out of an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution.

This document summarizes the history and development of the Missouri Basin Project and Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program; created to meet the problem posed by the threat to scientific and historical data by the dam construction program in the Missouri Basin and elsewhere. The Missouri Basin water development program of the Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers has and will continue to inundate numerous sites on which the aboriginal inhabitants of the region...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Wheeler.

This conference paper addresses the Oahe Reservoir area and its many archeological potentialities demonstrated through excavation in the early to mid-1900s. In 1947 the Oahe Reservoir Project of the Army Corps of Engineers was announced. This meant that within the next ten or twelve years a large and important archeological area would be obliterated. Action was imperative. The Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution has conducted field surveys in the Oahe are during part of each...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

Suggested sequence of Pre-Ceramic subsistence patterns in the Great Plains Area (circa 9000 B.C. - 1000 A.D.).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

In this document, Richard P Wheeler synthesizes in chart form knowledge of Early Man – or rather of pre-pottery making men – in the Plains area according to inferable subsistence patterns, in chronological order. On this level of anthropological abstraction, the task was not difficult because of the scarcity of known information. Wheeler’s perspective also includes a brief history of the development of American paleontology.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler. Hubert G. Smith.

This report has been prepared in compliance with a letter dated February 2, 1953 from the Assistant Director, Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation, to the Acting Chief, Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution. The report is based, in part, on a previous report by the Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, entitled "Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Niobrara River Basin, Nebraska, August 1951". The present report, as well as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler. G. Hubert Smith.

This report has been prepared in compliance with a letter dated February 2, 1953 from the Assistant Director, Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation, to the Acting Chief, Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution. The report is based, in part, on a previous report by the Missouri Basin project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, entitled “Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Niobrara River Basin, Nebraska, August 1951.” The present report, as well as the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1965. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1966. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1967. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains the first two quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1968. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Wheeler.

This is a reprint from “Progress, Missouri River Basin,” a Quarterly Report of the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee, October-December, 1955. This document reports on archeological projects carried out during the summer of 1955. Three field units of the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys and four field parties sponsored by State institutions, in cooperation with the National Park Service, carried out archeological projects in two dam and reservoir...

DOCUMENT Full-Text River Basin Surveys, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

This report was prepared for the "Ad Hoc Advisory Committee" that reviewed the River Basin Surveys program of the Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in 1968. The report includes background information about the program and suggests additional activities that the program might undertake in the future. The River Basin Surveys was organized within the Smithsonian Institution in the fall of 1945 as a unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Its purpose was to carry out...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert W. Neuman.

This report concerns the 1953 investigations conducted by a field party of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, at the Farm School Site (39BF220), which is situated on an extensive floodplain along the left side of the Missouri River in Buffalo County, South Dakota. The site was first recognized in 1956 by a survey team of the Missouri Basin Project under the direction of Harold A. Huscher. The 1958 investigations, from July 7 to July 11, were supervised by Robert W. Neuman;...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Page Wheeler.

In this document, Richard Wheeler discusses ten projectile point types, and one pseudo-type, that were not addressed by Robert E. Bell and Roland Scott Hall in their description and illustration of forty-five projectile point types of the United States, published in 1953. Two types, Duncan and Hanna, recorded in Wheeler’s document were recently named and defined by Wheeler. Another, designated Agate Basin, will be described on the basis of specimens made available by Dr. Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

Expounding on new names, definitions, and categorizations of two point types found in the Keyhole Reservoir, Richard P. Wheeler compares the newly identified Duncan and Hanna Points to McKean Points found in similar contexts within three occupation sites in Northeastern Wyoming.