Columbia Plateau (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Osborne. Marshall T. Newman. Arthur Woodward. W. J. Kroll. B. H. McLeod.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward B. Jelks. Warren W. Caldwell. Joel L. Shiner. Douglas Osborne. Alan Bryan. Robert H. Crabtree.

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...