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cases direct assistance in the field, have been offered to members and 

 local chapters of the Missouri Archeological Society; the latter, in 

 turn, have reported to the university the results of their field in- 

 vestigations. As requested, these data have been placed at the disposal 

 of the River Basin Surveys to assist in preparation of reports and 

 recommendations to the National Park Service and the construction 

 agency. 



Of the several Corps of Engineers projects proposed for the 

 Missouri River watershed in Missouri only Pomme de Terre Reser- 

 voir was surveyed in 1947. This is located on the Pomme de Terre 

 River, a southerly tributary of the Osage. A joint survey here by the 

 University of Missouri and the Ozarks Chapter, Missouri Archeo- 

 logical Society, disclosed the location of 25 sites of archeological 

 interest. These include open camp sites, stone cairns or graves, and 

 caves or rock shelters containing evidence of former human occupa- 

 tion. Pottery was found at only one site ; its apparent absence from 

 the others, together with the types of stone artifacts noted, suggests 

 that a rather lengthy period of habitation by prepottery peoples may 

 be represented. It is noteworthy that one of the earliest records in 

 North America of human artifacts associated with bones of extinct 

 Pleistocene mammals was made by Albert Koch in 1840, only a few 

 miles downstream from the proposed Pomme de Terre dam site. 

 Thus, despite the brief time devoted to survey in 1947 in this reservoir 

 area, it seems clear that antiquities of considerable promise will be 

 affected and that a close watch will have to be maintained while con- 

 struction is in progress. 



In addition to Pomme de Terre, investigations were carried on in 

 1947 at Joanna Reservoir, on Salt River in northeastern Missouri ; 

 at Clearwater Reservoir, on the Merrimac River in eastern Missouri, 

 and at Bull Shoals Reservoir, now under construction on White River 

 in the southwestern part of the State. Numerous sites have been 

 located and recorded, and at Bull Shoals a camp site and a rock shelter, 

 both stratified, were excavated. As elsewhere in the Basin, so in 

 Missouri it is evident that a wide range in time and a variety of 

 remains from several different periods will be directly affected by the 

 water-control program. It is the intention of the agencies active in 

 this area to continue the salvage operations. 



NEBRASKA 



In Nebraska, the Smithsonian Institution has cooperative agree- 

 ments for archeological work with the Nebraska State Historical 

 Society and the Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, 



