Woodward Hollow (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan E. Freeman. A. Elkins.

During the month of May, 1938, archaeological excavations were begun and completed in a cave (D1-30) which was located in the bluffs on the west side of Woodward Hollow in Delaware County, Oklahoma. The excavation of this site as well as the excavation of other sites, was conducted in the area of Delaware County bordering the Grand or Neosho River, an area which was flooded by water which backed up in the river valley after the construction of a dam near Langley. The entire salvage program,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. Joan E. Freeman. J. T. Curtis. A. Elkins.

This report on D1-47, a bluff shelter in northeastern Oklahoma, is one of a series of reports on sites in Delaware County prepared by the staff and graduate students of the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin. An extensive series of sites were excavated between 1937 and 1940 by means of the Works Projects Administration archaeological program sponsored by the University of Oklahoma prior to the inundation of much of the river valley land by the construction of a dam on the Grand...