Faunal Remains (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

The investigation of the archeological resources of the Orwell Reservoir was made by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, in October1948. The District Engineer's Office, Corps of Engineers, at St. Paul, provided maps to facilitate the work, and local residents were consulted. The purpose of the survey was to discover the extent of any archeological remains in the area to be flooded by the dam and to determine whether there are sites of major importance in this area that should be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

This report has been prepared for 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 report is an appraisal of the paleontological resources of nine reservoir areas in five sub-basins in the Missouri River Basin drainage area. The nine reservoirs were prospected for paleontological materials at various times during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jack T. Hughes. Wesley L. Bliss.

The proposed. Lake Solitude Reservoir site was visited on August 21 and 22, 1946, by Wesley L, Bliss and Jack T. Hughes. Lake Solitude was the sixth of ten reservoir sites investigated by this party during August and September of the 19A-6 field season. Examination of Lake Solitude was part of an archeological and paleontological reconnaissance of top priority reservoirs in the Wyoming - Montana region. The reconnaissance formed an initial step in the project of salvaging the most significant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

This resource is a brief overview of the Smoky Hill River Sub-Basin with supplementary reports on the Webster Reservoir, Kirwin Reservoir, Kanopolis Reservoir, Glen Elder Reservoir and Cedar Bluff Reservoir. The reports were conducted by Theodore E. White, Paleontologist, under the supervision of field director Waldo R. Wedel of the Missouri Valley Project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

This document is a report on the Dickinson Dam and Reservoir, an irrigation, flood control and municipal water supply project of the Bureau of Reclamation that took place during the late 1940s. The concluding recommendations state that no further work is needed for the Dickinson reservoir.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

This document is a report/appraisal of the archaeological resources of Shadehill Dam and Reservoir. The area underwent an irrigated, flood control and water supply project by the Bureau of Reclamation.