Upper Wabash River (Geographic Keyword)

DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

The procedures employed by the St. Louis VCP to rehouse the archaeological material from the Excavation of Big Bangs and Little Bangs Mounds (12HU25 and 12HU26), 1964 Huntington Reservoir Project investigation are discussed in the Artifact Report. The report can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/document/402176.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry Watt.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc. The procedures employed to re-house the...

PROJECT Virginia Gould Gerald. National Park Service. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District.

The USACE, Louisville District obtained this collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Huntington Reservoir Project in 1964. Indiana University’s GBL was contracted to perform the fieldwork. Three mounds were excavated in the Huntington Reservoir on the Upper Wabash River, Huntington, Indiana. One was a small remnant of a mound (12HU27); the other two were semi-conical mounds (12HU25 and 12HU26) which did not contain burials. Of the three mounds located in the initial survey,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Virginia Gould Gerald.

The excavation of three mounds in Huntington County, Indiana, on the Upper Wabash River was accomplished in 1964 under auspices of the National Park Service through a grant administered by Indiana University. The mounds, three of the twenty-four sites located in 1963 by John Dorwin during the preliminary archaeological survey of the Huntington Reservoir, were located on the property of Mrs. C.W.H. Bangs, resident of Huntington, Indiana. Permission was obtained for the necessary excavation from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Printice Petty.

This collection is referred to as "Big Bangs and Little Bangs Mounds (12HU25 and 12HU26) 1964.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The associated documentation for Big Bangs and Little Bangs Mounds (12HU25 and 12HU26) 1964 was stored in one acidic folder and in one acidic cardboard box with several other document collections. The archivist did not find it difficult to assign...

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of lithic artifacts collected during excavations of Big Bangs and Little Bangs Mounds, 1964 Huntington Reservoir Project, Huntington, Indiana.

DATASET Printice Petty.

This is the scanned asset key for the Excavation of Big Bangs and Little Bangs Mounds (12HU25 and 12HU26), 1964 Huntington Reservoir Project collection stored at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University.