Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Badwater Reservoir Site, Fremont County, Wyoming

Author(s): Franklin Fenenga; Frank H. Roberts, Jr.

Year: 1952

Summary

The Badwater Reservoir is a project of the Bureau of Reclamation. An archeological reconnaissance of the Badwater Reservoir area was undertaken by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, in July 1951. The field party consisted of Franklin Fenenga, archeologist and J. Mett Shippee, field assistant. Dr. Theodore E. White, geologist for the Missouri Basin Project, completed a paleontological reconnaissance of the area in the summer of 1947 and the results have been printed. Investigations have been limited to field reconnaissance.

This report gives a brief overview of the Badwater Reservoir Site’s archaeological history, a map of the site and location specifics.

Cite this Record

Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Badwater Reservoir Site, Fremont County, Wyoming. Franklin Fenenga, Frank H. Roberts, Jr.. 1952 ( tDAR id: 40458) ; doi:10.6067/XCV82V2J76

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Material
Chipped Stone • Fauna

Site Name
48FR203

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Reservoir

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Reconnaissance / Survey

General
Aboriginal Steatite Quarry • Bureau of Reclamation • Lithic Scatter • Paleontological Resources • Paleontology

Geographic Keywords
56013 (Fips Code) • Badlands • Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming • Fremont (County) • North America (Continent) • Snyder Draw • United States of America (Country) • Wind River Formation • Wyoming (State / Territory)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -110.054; min lat: 42.261 ; max long: -107.501; max lat: 44.009 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Anne Vawser

Contributor(s): J. Mett Shippee; Theodore E. White

Principal Investigator(s): Franklin Fenenga

Sponsor(s): Smithsonian Institution

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 900138

NADB citation id number(s): 000000111451

Notes

General Note: Two other relative tDAR resources were created in the past by the National Archaeological Database. All useful and important information has been combined into this current resource.

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