Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main 1979
Part of: US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District VCP
Following a request from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, an archaeological field reconnaissance was completed for the Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main near Peoria, Miami County, Indiana. The principal investigator was Ronald Hicks of Ball State University. The project involved the construction of 1600 feet of force main and a lift station between the two existing treatment plants. The field reconnaissance, conducted on April 28, 1979, was an intensive pedestrian survey of the proposed route. Shovel probes were placed at various intervals depending on the vegetation and amount of clearly visible soil (Cochran 1979).
Three prehistoric sites were identified by the survey: 12MI2(11), 12MI3(12), and 12MI4(13). Chert flakes were recovered at 12MI2(11) and 12MI4(13) with “chert flakes and a rough blank” being recovered at 12MI3(12) (Cochran 1979: 17). Because no diagnostic artifacts were recovered from any of the sites, it was impossible to assign cultural affiliation or time of occupation to them (Cochran 1979).
The digital materials in this project were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, select artifact photographs, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, field notes, maps and site survey records. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.
Site Name Keywords
12MI11 •
12MI13 •
2MI312
Other Keywords
Collections Management •
Artifact Database
Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Heritage Management
Material Types
Chipped Stone •
Glass
Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
Indiana (State / Territory) •
Wabash County (County) •
Miami County (County) •
North America (Continent) •
Peoria •
Mississinewa Reservoir •
USA (Country)
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Artifact Database, Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main 1979 (2012)
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This the artifact database from the Report for Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main 1979 collection stored at Applied Archaeology Laboratories, Ball State University. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in May 2011. The VCP St. Louis laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of...
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Scanned Asset Key, Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main 1979 (2012)
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This dataset contains a list of the assets scanned from the Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main 1979 collection stored at Applied Archaeology Laboratories, Ball State University.