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most inch or two of soil. Much more evidence from such sites will 
be required before the culture or cultures represented can be ade- 
quately described and properly placed in the Plains cultural sequence. 
Unfortunately, such data may never be forthcoming, for even as these 
lines are being written the rising waters of the Garrison Reservoir 
are rapidly placing most of the sites beyond the reach of the 
archeologist. 
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