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DOCUMENT Full-Text George Metcalf. Theodore E. White.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Hubert Smith.

This document is a manuscript prepared by the Smithsonian Institution for a special article in the Quarterly Progress Report, published by the Missouri Basin Field Committee. Giving an overview of the mission and goals of the Missouri Basin Project through the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program, this article addresses the vital importance of historic site recovery and excavation. These sites produce evidence of historic contact between settlers, explorers and native groups unrecorded in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. W. Caldwell.

From the time of first contact by European and American travelers, the fortified villages of the sedentary, horticultural Indians who lived along the Missouri River in what today are the States of North and South Dakota have been a matter for speculation and comment— and with good reason. Many of the defensive features have close counterparts in the fortified villages and castles of the mote and bailey type of western Europe. This is not to imply that there was any direct relationship but the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Hoffman.

This document presents a general survey of prehistoric houses found along the Middle Missouri River. Photographs and descriptions of location, construction and use of these structures is included. The Archaeological Salvage Program urges the excavation and documentation of these sites to add to what is already known concerning the history of the land and its prehistoric occupation. Salvage archaeology has progressed rapidly in the great reservoir areas of the Missouri River during the last...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Metcalf.

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...

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In March of 1955, Dr. Frederick Johnson, Secretary of the Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains, on behalf of the Committee, suggested that a symposium on salvage archaeology might be held during the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in May. He asked Drs. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution and John M. Corbett of the National Park Service to formulate an agenda for such a symposium and make such arrangements as might be necessary with the...