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DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the eighth in a series of reports presented to provide a resume of current archeological work within the Missouri River Basin. During the summer of 1963 there were twenty-one field parties, representing one Federal and six State agencies, working in the Missouri Basin under the aegis of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. A further breakdown shows that the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, had twelve field parties working in reservoirs and proposed canal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Anne Toepel.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Baley. Cameron Blumhardt. Kate Shantry. Glen Kirkpatrick. Colin Grier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, Washington State University archaeologists working in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the National Parks Service conducted a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the famous Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Site— Fort Clatsop, Oregon— in a fresh attempt to locate the remains of the fort. Evidence associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Bender.

The Corps of Discovery Expedition traveled the stretch of the Missouri River that today divides Nebraska from South Dakota in August of 1804. From their vantage point on the river, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark both note an abandoned Omaha village at the mouth of what is now Bow Creek, Cedar county, Nebraska. The explorers' map identifies the village as having been founded by Omaha leader Little Bow after branching off of the main Omaha tribe. Since the 1940's archeogists have made attempts...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. W. Caldwell.

For the past several years the Smithsonian Institution has been concerned with the problem of dating cultural developments and climatic events along the main stem of the Missouri River (see Progress. Missouri River Basin, Oct.-Dec., 1959, pp.42-60). One of the most profitable approaches has been through dendrochronology, the charting and comparison of annual growth rings of trees. The study of dendrochronology is not new in the Plains. The work of Harry Weakly in central and western Nebraska,...