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apparently occupational areas, that is, camp or village locations. At 

 still another, a buried stratum yielded animal bones and charcoal, but 

 no artifacts from which the nature and relationships of the horizon 

 might be suggested. There is a possibility of some antiquity for this 

 material, but further testing is needed. 



Norton Reservoir. — This is on Prairie Dog Creek, a southerly 

 affluent of the Republican River, in Norton County, Kans. The area 

 to be inundated is small, but has archeological interest. Three sites 

 were located, all characterized by quantities of worked yellow jasper 

 and rejectage. There was no pottery on any of these, or elsewhere 

 in the sections visited. A small depression on one site possibly indi- 

 cates a former pit house. 



The terrain in the reservoir area generally appears favorable for 

 former Indian utilization. Prairie Dog Creek enters the Republican 

 less than 35 miles to the northeast, within the Harlan County Reser- 

 voir which is now under construction by the Corps of Engineers. 

 About the junction of the two streams are numerous sites represent- 

 ing not less than four pottery-making cultures of varying antiquity. 

 A few miles east of the proposed Norton Reservoir is an aboriginal 

 quarry from which the Indians obtained limestone for use in pipe 

 making. All this leads to the suspicion that further and more in- 

 tensive survey will disclose a number of additional archeological 

 localities at Norton which will be afifected by the proposed water-con- 

 trol developments. 



Pioneer Reservoir. — Located on the Arikaree River in Cheyenne 

 County, Kans., this will afifect an area extending southwestward across 

 the State line into Yuma County, Colo, A single site was found here, 

 on the western terminus of the proposed dam axis. Insufficient 

 material was collected from it to make possible a suggestion as to 

 relationships to known archeological complexes of the region. 



Bonny Reservoir. — This is to be on the South Fork of Republican 

 River, in the southeastern corner of Yuma County, Colo. Though 

 of small extent, it disclosed three sites of archeological interest. Arti- 

 facts of the Yuma horizon, an early prepottery complex, are reported 

 to have been found on one by a local collector, and there appear to be 

 cultural deposits remaining which would be worthy of excavation. 

 Two other sites yielded too little material to be identifiable, even 

 tentatively, as to people or period. No pottery was found within the 

 future reservoir area. 



NEBRASKA 



An important share of the 1947 archeological field work of the River 

 Basin Surveys went into reconnaissance and excavation in water- 



