Chipped Stone (Material Keyword)

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Determination of the source of chert artifacts ties past peoples to specific locations on the landscape either through direct or indirect procurement strategies allowing researchers to visualize interactions with both resources and people. However, due to inherent variability accurate provenance data often remains elusive. The reliance upon chert provenance data obtained through macroscopic techniques is problematic and emphasizes the importance of continued research and development of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl A. Mack.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Healy.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth C. Reid.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text James H. Kellar.

The proposed report by James H. Kellar, the Appraisal of the Archeological Resource of the Huntington Reservoir Area, Wabash River Indiana, was submitted to the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, under the terms of Purchase Order No. 29-737. The following reports the results of an archaeological surface survey in the area to be inundated by the construction of the Huntington reservoir in the upper Wabash River Valley, Indiana. Much of the work was accomplished by John...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Frank H. Roberts, Jr..

The Badwater Reservoir is a project of the Bureau of Reclamation. An archeological reconnaissance of the Badwater Reservoir area was undertaken by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, in July 1951. The field party consisted of Franklin Fenenga, archeologist and J. Mett Shippee, field assistant. Dr. Theodore E. White, geologist for the Missouri Basin Project, completed a paleontological reconnaissance of the area in the summer of 1947 and the results have been printed....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dolores A. Gunnerson. James H. Gunnerson.

A field party from the University of Nebraska Laboratory of Anthropology conducted a surface reconnaissance in four potential reservoir areas in the Lower Platte Basin, Nebraska. The party, consisting of James H. Gunnerson and Dolores A. Gunnerson, spent twelve days in the field on this survey, between August 15 and September 2, 1948. The Laboratory of Anthropology undertook this reconnaissance in an attempt to locate archeological remains in potential reservoir areas in the Missouri Valley....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert B. Cumming, Jr..

An archeological and paleontological survey of the Lower Platte Basin was first made in the spring of 1947? and the results of the survey reported in a preliminary appraisal issued during the fall of the same year. During the summer of 1948 a preliminary survey of the potential Cushing Reservoir area was made by the Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, and a supplementary report of the work issued in 1952.2 Within the period of November 7th to November 16, 1950, a reconnaissance...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga.

This report is a summary of archeological and paleontological reconnaissances conducted in the area which will be inundated by the Middle Fork Reservoir, It has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. The archeological survey was made in August and September, 1950 by Robert L....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report has been prepared by the Missouri River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution, for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945* It is based upon two archeological surveys — the first in June 1949 by a two man party supervised by Richard P, Wheeler and the other from September 5 to October...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report is an evaluation of the character and the quantity of archeological and paleontological materials which will be destroyed by creation of the Narrows Reservoir. It has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. It is based upon a reconnaissance conducted by Robert L....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

The archeology of the Niobrara River Basin has not been investigated systematically, but during the last twenty years the University of Nebraska Laboratory of Anthropology and the Nebraska State Historical Society have recorded some 46 sites in the area, and in 1946 the Missouri River Basin Survey located a small buried occupational level, site 25DW1, in the Box Butte Reservoir area, Dawes County, Nebraska. Eleven of these sites have been excavated or partly excavated and three have been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Frank H. Roberts, Jr..

This resource is an archeological reconnaissance of the Red Gulch Reservoir area completed by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, in June 1951. The field party consisted of Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, and Frederick H. West, assistant. A paleontological reconnaissance of the same region was undertaken by Dr. Theodore E. White of the Missouri Valley Project in the summer of 1947, and the results have been printed. Investigations consisted of field exploration and local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Franklin Fenenga. J. M. Shippee.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

The preliminary investigation of the archeological resources of the Coralville Reservoir was made by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, between January 24 and February 3, 1949, The District Engineer’s Office, Corps of Engineers, at Rock Island, Illinois 3 furnished maps and provided 4 days transportation. Some time was spent in consultation with local residents, and with Dr. C. R. Keyes, Director of the Archeological Survey of Iowa, at Mount, Vernon, Iowa. The survey was made in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Drucker.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Drucker.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Philip Drucker.

The River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution examined the area to be inundated by Kelsey Creek Reservoir in Lake County, California for archaeological resources. Clarence E. Smith carried out the field work in the fall of 1947. Although the area is small, no less than 13 sites were found within it. Four of the sites were habitation sites, as indicated by the presence of middens. The other 9 sites were likely "workshop" sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward B. Jelks.

An archeological survey of the area to be affected by the Millwood Reservoir,, Arkansas, was undertaken by the Austin office of the River Basin Surveys, National Park Service, as a project of the nationwide program of archeological and paleontological salvage being conducted by the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution with cooperation of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Three separate field excursions were made to the Millwood area, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Philip Drucker.

This report describes the archaeological survey that the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution made during October and November of 1947. Clarence E. Smith, Archaeologist, and a team of graduate students from the University of California carried out the field work. A total of 50 archaeological sites were found during the survey. Sites consist of habitation and activity areas. It is worth noting that two of the major sites were identified as villages occupied and recorded during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Metcalf. Frank H. Roberts, Jr..

The present appraisal of the archeological resources of the Big Sandy Reservoir is the result of a five-day survey(May 20-24)of the area by two men, George Metcalf and Lee Madison, who were loaned temporarily from the Missouri Basin Project to make the investigations. The purpose of the survey, which was made at the request of the National Park Service, was to determine to what extent archeological remains occur in and near the reservoir area and whether such materials are likely to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harvard G. Ayers.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Greengo.

The Dardanelle Reservoir is to be a power pool formed by a dam across the Arkansas River 3 miles above the town of Dardanelle in Yell county,West Central Arkansas. The surface area of the reservoir will be about 37,000 acres. Flooding is scheduled to begin in 1963. A survey of the archeological potentialities of the area to be flooded by the reservoir was conducted during a five-week period from March 18 to April 19, 1957, by the Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Surveys. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph Solecki.

During the period September 16-19, 1952, a preliminary archeological reconnaissance of the Glen Elder Reservoir in Mitchell and Osborne Counties, Kansas. The purpose of the reconnaissance was to locate and record archeological remains likely to be destroyed or damaged by the construction of the reservoir. No particular emphasis was placed upon the paleontological resources of this reservoir since a preliminary paleontological survey had already been made. The work consisted of surface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul L. Cooper.

The present report is intended as a brief, non-technical statement of the archeological resources known to exist in the Oahe Reservoir area (for information relative to the results of archeological research in the area to date, reference should be made to the list of literature cited at the end of this report). It is based primarily upon information collected by Missouri Basin Project reconnaissance parties 1948-1952, but use has been made of various other resources. During the late summer of...