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DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report summarizes the results of an intensive archeological reconnaissance of the area which will be inundated by the construction of the Alzada Dam. It has been prepared for at the request of the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945, The reconnaissance was made during August 1951 by Franklin Fenenga, archeologist...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr..

An archeological reconnaissance of the Bull Creek Reservoir area was undertaken by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution in June 1951. The field party consisted of Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, and Frederick H. West, assistant. Dr. Theodore E. White of the Missouri Valley Project completed a paleontological reconnaissance of .the area in the summer of 1947 and the results have been printed. This report is eight pages long; it describes briefly the area and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert B. Cumming, Jr..

The purpose of this supplemental report is to summarize the archeological and paleontological work accomplished in the Fort Randall area by the Missouri Basin Project and the cooperating agencies since the issuance of the Preliminary Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Fort Randall Reservoir. South Dakota, September, 1947. This includes archaeological survey in the years 1950, 1951,and 1952. Examination of identified sites took place in 1951 and 1952. In total,...

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 Franklin Fenenga.

This report is a summary of the results of an archeological reconnaissance conducted in the area which will be inundated by the water to be impounded by the Gavin Point Dam. It has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. The reconnaissance was made during September 1951 by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

Archeological and paleontological investigations were conducted in the Jamestown Resevoir area, Stutsman and Foster Counties, North Dakota, by field units of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, in 1946, 1947, 1952. In a five-day preliminary survey, August 27-31, 1946, J. Joseph Bauxar and Paul L. Cooper, archeologists, located seven archeological sites in the resevoir area (Bauxar, 1947). In August, 1947, Theodore E. White, paleontologist, and John C. Donohoe, assistant, found...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report has been prepared by the Missouri River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution, for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. It is an evaluation of the character and the quantity of archeological and paleontological remains discovered during preliminary reconnaissance of five reservoir...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jack Hughes. J. M. Shippee.

This report summarizes the results of archeological and paleontological reconnaissance of the Keyhold Resevoir, Crook County, Wyoming, conducted by field parties of the Missouri River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution. The report has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the smithsonian institution and the National park Service, approved October 9, 1945 ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga.

This report is a preliminary evaluation of the character and the quantity of archeological and paleontological materials which will be destroyed by the creation of the Little Bighorn Reservoir. It has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. It is based upon an archeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. It is based on a preliminary archeological reconnaissance of the site of a proposed reservoir on White Rock Creek in Jewell County, north-central Kansas. The reconnaissance consisted of two field trips during the summer of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dolores A. Gunnerson. James H. Gunnerson.

A field party from the University of Nebraska Laboratory of Anthropology conducted a surface reconnaissance in four potential reservoir areas in the Lower Platte Basin, Nebraska. The party, consisting of James H. Gunnerson and Dolores A. Gunnerson, spent twelve days in the field on this survey, between August 15 and September 2, 1948. The Laboratory of Anthropology undertook this reconnaissance in an attempt to locate archeological remains in potential reservoir areas in the Missouri Valley....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert B. Cumming, Jr..

An archeological and paleontological survey of the Lower Platte Basin was first made in the spring of 1947? and the results of the survey reported in a preliminary appraisal issued during the fall of the same year. During the summer of 1948 a preliminary survey of the potential Cushing Reservoir area was made by the Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, and a supplementary report of the work issued in 1952.2 Within the period of November 7th to November 16, 1950, a reconnaissance...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga.

This report is a summary of archeological and paleontological reconnaissances conducted in the area which will be inundated by the Middle Fork Reservoir, It has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. The archeological survey was made in August and September, 1950 by Robert L....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report has been prepared by the Missouri River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution, for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945* It is based upon two archeological surveys — the first in June 1949 by a two man party supervised by Richard P, Wheeler and the other from September 5 to October...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Paul L. Cooper.

This report is an evaluation of the character and the quantity of archeological and paleontological materials which will be destroyed by creation of the Narrows Reservoir. It has been prepared for, and at the request of, the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. It is based upon a reconnaissance conducted by Robert L....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

The archeology of the Niobrara River Basin has not been investigated systematically, but during the last twenty years the University of Nebraska Laboratory of Anthropology and the Nebraska State Historical Society have recorded some 46 sites in the area, and in 1946 the Missouri River Basin Survey located a small buried occupational level, site 25DW1, in the Box Butte Reservoir area, Dawes County, Nebraska. Eleven of these sites have been excavated or partly excavated and three have been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

The preliminary investigation of the archeological resources of the Coralville Reservoir was made by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, between January 24 and February 3, 1949, The District Engineer’s Office, Corps of Engineers, at Rock Island, Illinois 3 furnished maps and provided 4 days transportation. Some time was spent in consultation with local residents, and with Dr. C. R. Keyes, Director of the Archeological Survey of Iowa, at Mount, Vernon, Iowa. The survey was made in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

The following reports deal with the results of archeological surveys of three small reservoir areas in the Red River of the North Drainage Basin, in northeastern North Dakota: the Homme Reservoir, on the South Branch of the Park River, Walsh county; the Pembina River Reservoir, Cavalier county; and the Tongue River Reservoir, Pembina county. The reservoirs are projects of the Corps of Engineers; the archeological surveys were made by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution,, The field...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward B. Jelks.

An archeological survey of the area to be affected by the Millwood Reservoir,, Arkansas, was undertaken by the Austin office of the River Basin Surveys, National Park Service, as a project of the nationwide program of archeological and paleontological salvage being conducted by the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution with cooperation of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Three separate field excursions were made to the Millwood area, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harold A. Huscher. Charles H. McNutt.

This report summarizes the results of an intensive archeological reconnaissance of the proposed Big Bend Reservoir of central South Dakota. The survey was carried out as a part of the continuing program of the Missouri Basin project, Smithsonian Institution, which is directed toward the recovery of aboriginal and historical remains threatened by hydroelectric, flood control, and reclamation development of the Missouri River system. The Big Bend Reservoir will be one of several artificial lakes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Metcalf. Frank H. Roberts, Jr..

The present appraisal of the archeological resources of the Big Sandy Reservoir is the result of a five-day survey(May 20-24)of the area by two men, George Metcalf and Lee Madison, who were loaned temporarily from the Missouri Basin Project to make the investigations. The purpose of the survey, which was made at the request of the National Park Service, was to determine to what extent archeological remains occur in and near the reservoir area and whether such materials are likely to be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Greengo.

The Dardanelle Reservoir is to be a power pool formed by a dam across the Arkansas River 3 miles above the town of Dardanelle in Yell county,West Central Arkansas. The surface area of the reservoir will be about 37,000 acres. Flooding is scheduled to begin in 1963. A survey of the archeological potentialities of the area to be flooded by the reservoir was conducted during a five-week period from March 18 to April 19, 1957, by the Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Surveys. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph Solecki.

During the period September 16-19, 1952, a preliminary archeological reconnaissance of the Glen Elder Reservoir in Mitchell and Osborne Counties, Kansas. The purpose of the reconnaissance was to locate and record archeological remains likely to be destroyed or damaged by the construction of the reservoir. No particular emphasis was placed upon the paleontological resources of this reservoir since a preliminary paleontological survey had already been made. The work consisted of surface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul L. Cooper.

The present report is intended as a brief, non-technical statement of the archeological resources known to exist in the Oahe Reservoir area (for information relative to the results of archeological research in the area to date, reference should be made to the list of literature cited at the end of this report). It is based primarily upon information collected by Missouri Basin Project reconnaissance parties 1948-1952, but use has been made of various other resources. During the late summer of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John J. Hoffman.

The operations of salvage archeology in the Rathbun Reservoir are another example of massive redemption of archeological sites now under way in the river valleys of America. Under the aegis of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage program, and in cooperation with the National Park Service, the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution has been charged with the leadership of these activities in many areas of the United States. The Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys has...