Initial Report, Salamonie and Mississinewa Reservoirs 1961-1963

Summary

The following is the initial report of archaeological salvage in the Salamonie and Mississinewa reservoirs, Corps of Engineers flood control projects in major tributaries of the Wabash River in northeastern Indiana, and covers the period through June 30, 1963. The permanent field party is composed of James H. Kellar, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, and John Dorwin, Nick Franks, and J. Kenneth Smalls, graduate students in anthropology at Indiana University. The artifact database can be found in tDAR at (https://core.tdar.org/dataset/427824).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Salamonie and Mississinewa Reservoirs 1961-1963

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District

Repository(s): Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University

Prepared By(s): Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, finding aid, initial report, prehistory report, scanned asset key, second report and a third report. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include a box inventory, card stock inserts, correspondence documents, document folder listing, an initial data collection, and notes. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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