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River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 3: The Woodruff Ossuary, a Prehistoric Burial Site in Phillips County, Kansas (1953)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marvin F. Kivett.

The River Basin Surveys concept marks a nationwide acceptance by archaeologists of a leading role in the conservationist movement. If one agrees that an increment of archaeological knowledge has value, then it follows that every time a site is excavated ahead of inundation the act is one of preservation of a national as well as an intellectual resource. Beginning in 1945, the River Basin Survey Papers describe inter-agency salvage archaeological projects in thirteen states which include Oregon,...