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slopes have been used for pasturage and no doubt still maintain much 
of their native vegetation. Along White Rock Creek and its tribu- 
taries there exists a thick growth of deciduous forest. In recent times 
winter wheat, grain sorghums, and corn have been the principal crops, 
supplemented by cattle raising. 
Previous archeological investigations in Lovewell Reservoir were 
undertaken in 1935 by George Lamb, who conducted a preliminary 
survey of the White Rock and Warne sites. A more intensive investi- 
gation was carried out by Paul Cooper and George Lamb at the White 
Rock site in 1987 under the sponsorship of the Nebraska State 
Historical Society. A complete report of their excavations has been 
published in a master’s thesis by Mary Kiehl Rusco (1960). In 1951 
Franklin Fenenga conducted a survey of the entire reservoir for the 
Missouri River Basin Surveys. Material collected from these past 
investigations has been compared and considered in the compilation of 
this report. 
During the summer of 1956 the author directed a 10-man archeo- 
logical field party of the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institu- 
tion. A temporary field headquarters was established within the 
presently flooded Lovewell Reservoir from June 12 to August 18, and 
extensive excavations were conducted at one burial mound and three 
prehistoric occupational sites. Surface surveys were carried on and 
material was collected at all other known archeological sites in the 
reservoir area. This work was a segment of the Inter-Agency Archeo- 
logical Program for the recovery of archeological and paleontological 
remains in areas to be flooded by the construction of dams. 
Archeological excavations and reports would not be possible were it 
not for the assistance and cooperation of many individuals. J am 
deeply grateful to Lee Madison, who acted as field assistant, and to 
members of the crew, Russel Brown, James Botsford, Charles Eyman, 
Steve Flood, Richard Jensen, Eugene McCluney, Nicholas Ourusoff, 
James Stanek, and Mrs. Myron Intermill, our cook. I wish to express 
my thanks to the staff of the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin 
Surveys, and to Marvin Kivett of the Nebraska State Historical So- 
ciety Museum, who always made his time and the collections of the 
museum readily available. My wholehearted appreciation goes to Dr. 
Robert L. Stephenson, River Basin Surveys, and to Dr. John L. 
Champe, University of Nebraska, for their advice and assistance in the 
writing of this report. 
Dr. Theodore E. White, Dinosaur National Monument, identified 
the osteological remains; Dr. Joseph P. E. Morrison, United States 
National Museum, the molluscan collection ; and Dr. Norton H. Nicker- 
son, Cornell University, the vegetal material. 
