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251-275 (339 Records)
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Huntington County Test Excavations 1963.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The Glenn A. Black...
Huntington Reservoir Area Appraisal 1963-1964
The report entitled Appraisal of the Archeological Resource of the Huntington Reservoir Area, Wabash River Indiana, written by James H. Kellar 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...
Indian Hill Donation 1956
There is no report or documentation associated with these artifacts. Information on the original artifact bags state that the materials were collected from Mr. Paul Schmidt’s property on or near Indian Hill in Warrick County, Indiana, and donated by Mrs. William Ellerbusch of Newburgh, Indiana. The date, December 1956, may be either the date of collection or the date of donation. The majority of items are human skeletal remains. Because of this, and because it is unknown how the single lithic...
Indun Rockshelter (12MO350) 1978
There was no report present for this collection, but there were field notes that describe the site. In addition, while no report was found for this investigation, an associated investigative report (Munson 1976) includes relevant information for Indun Rockshelter. Field notes indicate that archaeological test excavations at Indun Rockshelter (12MO350) occurred from July to August 1978. There were 14 participants for the adult summer field school which was sponsored by the Indiana University...
Intensive Survey of the Proposed Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Project 1978-1979
This collection is referred to as "Intensive Survey of the Proposed Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Project 1978-1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this investigation is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1976 to 1979. The investigation occurred primarily from 1978 to 1979, which explains the date of the project name. The range of dates includes administrative records. The documents for the...
Investigation at Stoney River Dam 1961
This collection is referred to as “Investigation at Stoney River Dam 1961.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The documents date from March to April 1961 and include a progress report, a memorandum, a note, and newspaper articles. The documents were originally housed in an acidic folder, within an acid-free box, and were in good condition. The original folder was labeled...
Jackson (1BR35) 1968 and N.D.
The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...
Jackson (1BR35) 1976-1978
The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...
Lafayette Lake 1977
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Lafayette Lake 1977.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two and a half linear inches. Lafayette Lake 1977 was contained within...
Lake George Mitigation
The MCX-CMAC utilizes the standard archival practice of “unique naming” of collections. The purpose of this is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Lake George Mitigation.” This naming practice is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder titles, and box labels. The linear extent of this collection is four (4) inches. All field and catalog records were duplicated...
Lake Monroe 1976
This collection is referred to as "Lake Monroe 1976.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is ten (10) linear inches. The associated documentation for Lake Monroe 1976 was stored in thirty acidic folders in one acidic cardboard box with several other document collections. Because the archaeological investigations at Lake Monroe were so extensive, it took longer than the time originally allotted by the Army Corps....
Lake Monroe Survey and Excavation Arbitrary Collection 1976-1997
There is no report associated with the Lake Monroe Survey and Excavation, Arbitrary Collection, 1976-1997 collection. Information derived from this collection was taken from data recorded on bags, field specimen tags, and GBL catalog cards. The county symbol employed is MO for Monroe County. Within this collection, twenty accession numbers are associated with multiple site numbers. There are multiple Lake Monroe collections contained in this one box of artifacts, and it would be advisable for...
Little River-Buffalo Creek Special Land Disposal Tract 1983
This collection is referred to as “Little River-Buffalo Creek Special Land Disposal Tract 1983.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection measures twelve (12.0) linear inches. The investigation was originally stored in an acidic cardboard box sealed with tape with other investigations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Strom Thurmond Lake subject property. Field and analysis forms, site maps...
Long Branch Lake Survey 1974-1978
The Long Branch Lake Survey 1974–1978 was authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1965 (Grantham 1986:1). The investigation was initiated because the construction of Long Branch Lake would directly impact and result in the loss of significant archaeological data. Since preservation was unfeasible, the USACE, Kansas City District, contracted with Northeast Missouri State University to recover archaeological data in order to mitigate the effects of construction. Between the summer of 1974 and...
Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962
The Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection has its origins in a 1958 Smithsonian Institution survey of the Chattahoochee River basin in preparation for the construction of dams which resulted in the Walter F. George Reservoir. This survey identified Mandeville (9CY1) as the highest priority site found at that time. Excavations at Mandeville (9CY1) took place in 1959 under the direction of Principal Investigator James H. Kellar of the University of Georgia. He was assisted in the field by...
Maner-Garnett House, Webb Wildlife Management Area 1996
New South Associates, Inc., as sub-consultant to Gulf South Research Corporation, conducted the excavation at Maner-Garnett House, Webb Wildlife Management Area, on July 16 and 17, 1996. The property is part of the “Westvaco” or “Palachucola” tract of the Webb Management Area which was acquired by USACE, Savannah District as part of the Richard B. Russell Reservoir mitigation project. Overseen by Principal Investigator Dr. J. W. Joseph, the goal of this archaeological investigation was to locate...
Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) 1976
The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Mary Ann Cole Site in 1976. Mary Ann Cole Site was situated on a fluvial terrace of the Ohio River where the Blue River joins it in Crawford County in Indiana. With the discovery of the site, test excavation were undertaken to define the site and locate features. The site’s western boundary was indefinable due to the presence of the abandoned Corp of Engineers Lock and Dam No. 44 structures....
Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) 1977
The USACE, Louisville District obtained this investigation through an archaeological test excavation at the Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) in 1977 undertaken by the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University. The Mary Ann Cole Site is located on a fluvial terrace at the confluence of the Ohio River and Blue River in Crawford County, Indiana (Guendling 1977). The Mary Ann Cole, 1977 investigation was undertaken to ascertain cultural deposits prior to planned development of the site...
Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) 1979-1981
Data recovery at the Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) in Crawford County, Indiana, consisted of archaeological excavations at the site and a geologic survey of lithic resources in nearby uplands. Excavations examined deposits consisting primarily of lithic refuse reflecting the manufacture of a variety of chert objects relating to the Late Archaic/Early Woodland transitional and Middle Woodland Periods. Materials indicated a lithic manufacturing locus composed entirely of waste products and broken or...
Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) N.D.
There are no report or field forms associated with these materials. An electronic artifact catalog provided by GBL for these remains and artifacts was titled “5208 - Mary Ann Cole Site 1982” and includes the dates of collection and the collectors’ names (Folder 1/1). The VCP St. Louis laboratory processed three other artifact collections from the Mary Ann Cole site (1976, 1977, and 1979-1981), but stated that this accession number (5208) did not belong with any of those investigations. The Mary...
Millers Ferry 1963-1968
The Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation is the responsibility of USACE, Mobile District, and is curated by the OAR in Moundville, Alabama. The collection consists of historic and prehistoric artifacts recovered from the archaeological investigation of 27 sites in the area of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam reservoir, Wilcox County, Alabama. USACE, Mobile District planned the construction of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam on the Alabama River under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945. The...
Mississinewa Reservoir Maps N.D.
This investigation was conducted by Ball State University in the Mississinewa Reservoir within Grant, Miami, and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the finding aid, scanned asset key, oversized material excel spreadsheet, and oversized Mississinewa Reservoir aerial and draft maps and map figures. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include an initial data sheet, document folder...
Mississinewa Reservoir Survey 1980-1982
In the summers of 1980 and 1981 William Wepler led a survey project of the Mississinewa Reservoir. The Mississinewa Reservoir is located in the Lower Mississinewa drainage between Peoria and Marion, Indiana in Miami, Wabash, and Grant counties. The survey spanned all three counties, and due to the size of the area being investigated, was performed as a non-random pedestrian survey. To help increase the likelihood of finding sites the crew conducted landform based surveys, where the survey area...
Monroe County Archaeological Investigation 1984
The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection from sites 12MO133, 12MO173, and 12MO176. The sites are identified using the conventional trinomial system; the county symbol MO refers to Monroe County, Indiana. There are six accession numbers associated with this investigation. Accession numbers 5704, 5706, 5894, and 6316 are associated with site number 12MO173, accession number 5892 is associated with site number 12MO133, and accession number 5893 is associated with site number 12MO176....
Monroe County Survey 1976
This collection is referred to as "Monroe County Survey 1976.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half linear (1 ½) inches. There was no report present in the Monroe County Survey 1976 document collection. There were no oversized or photographic materials removed from this collection. The only documents belonging to this collection were Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology catalog and specimen...