32ME16 (Site Name Keyword)
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This report supplements a preliminary appraisal issued in 1948 it is the result of surveys carried on in the Garrison Reservoir area from August 22 to October 18, 1950 and at intervals during the 1951 field season. It also includes a resume of the excavations carried on during the 1951 and 1952 field seasons. The report is prepared for the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding approved October 9, 1945. It is...
Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, Summary of Progress from the Beginning, In 1946 Through April 1952 (1952)
This document summarizes the history and development of the Missouri Basin Project and Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program; created to meet the problem posed by the threat to scientific and historical data by the dam construction program in the Missouri Basin and elsewhere. The Missouri Basin water development program of the Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers has and will continue to inundate numerous sites on which the aboriginal inhabitants of the region...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 27: Star Village: a Fortified Historic Arikara Site In Mercer County, North Dakota (1963)
As a part of the River Basin Surveys program a field party of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, conducted excavations at two sites in Mercer County, North Dakota, during the summer of 1951. Funds for the work were provided by the National Park Service. Excavation at the first of these sites, Rock Village (32ME15), had been started in 1950 by a similar unit under the leadership of G. Ellis Burcaw. Excavation at the second site, Star Village (32ME16), was carried on during the...