Riv. Bas. Sur. 
Pap. No. 30] STUTSMAN FOCUS—-WHEELER 173 
A. Johnston, Jr., Thomas A. Kiernan, Lawrence H. Kropp, Jr., 
Reginald Littrell, Frederick D. McEvoy, Edward W. McGough, 
Thomas G. Mayer, Eugene J. Nelson, David J. Robertson, Robert J. 
Stein, and David B. Williams, field workers. In 1954 I was assisted 
during the 19-day period of field work in the Jamestown area (which 
was a rather abortive enterprise owing to the stormy June weather) 
by Lloyd R. Armstrong, Manny D. Buzzell, George E. Cassell, Har- 
old A. Dietsch, Robert A. Espe, Richard J. Giddings, Frederick D. 
McEvoy, Joseph C. Peterson, and Robert J. Stein. 
It is a pleasure to express gratitude to the following individuals 
for their contributions to the archeological operations in the James- 
town area: to Philip E. Ehrenhard, Project Engineer, Bureau of 
Reclamation, Region 6, for providing reservoir maps, engineering 
data, and wise counsel; to Chelsea C. Russell, Chairman of the Bu- 
chanan, N. Dak., School District, for permitting the 1952 field party 
to inhabit the Telken schoolhouse, and to Thomas Telken, for letting 
the party draw water from his well and for making storage space 
available, in 1952; to Mrs. Jim Dumphy, for allowing the 1954 field 
party to live in her vacant house about a mile northeast of the Telken 
schoolhouse, in close proximity to the reservoir area; to Larry Cham- 
bers, editor of the Jamestown Sun, for publishing creditable news 
stories concerning some of the archeological findings made in the 
Jamestown area in 1952; and to Oscar Hintz and Leroy Joos, local 
landowners, for granting permission to excavate the sites which lay 
in their holdings. 
ANALYSIS: SOURCES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DATA 
THE HINTZ SITE (32SN3) 
The few artifacts first recovered from this site came from a 0.7-foot- 
thick humus layer exposed in the east bank of a gully cutting head- 
ward into a low terrace bordering the south and west sides of the 
flood plain of the intermittent upper James River, at a distance of a 
little less than 3 air miles due north of the Jamestown Dam. The 
legal location of the find-spot was SW14NW\, sec. 1, T. 140 N., R. 
64 W. The specimens collected at the time of discovery, in August 
1946, included 10 small pottery sherds, 2 chipped stone artifacts, 1 
unaltered flake, and 1 animal tooth. The investigators, J. Joe Bauxar 
and Paul L. Cooper, noted the presence of a number of shallow de- 
pressions, suggesting house pits, scattered over the grass- and buck- 
brush-covered surface of the terrace to the east and south of the 
detrital layer. Since Bauxar and Cooper could detect no artifact 
material in association with the depressions, they were unable to tell 
whether the sunken areas were house pits or were simply partially 
filled craters made by overthrown trees. 
