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five of the charred corn kernels are identified as being “predominantly 
of the southwestern type” (Nickerson, personal communication). 
Faunal remains from the sites consisted almost entirely of bison 
bone. Specimens recovered at the White Rock site in 1956 were all 
from the buffalo and located in a cache pit. A singular fragment of 
cottontail rabbit was collected from the surface at the Intermill site. 
Bison remains were quite numerous at the Warne site, and almost 
without exception were recovered from storage caches. Canid bones 
are represented but are not plentiful. The majority were found in 
two separate caches. A fragment of turtle carapace was also re- 
covered from a cache. Six horse teeth were collected on the surface, 
but owing to their provenience and the total lack of any other horse 
remains, their presence seems intrusive. 
From the summary of the traits reviewed, there can be little doubt 
that the inhabitants of these sites experienced a similar way of life. 
The specific traits of this material culture allow us to assign them 
to the Glen Elder Focus, White Rock Aspect. One other component 
of this focus is the Glen Elder site, 14ML1 (Rusco, 1960). Archeo- 
logical evidence suggests that the behavior of these people was pat- 
terned after a semisedentary organization. Theirs was an existence 
derived partially from agricultural production while occupying the 
villages and partially from hunting the buffalo and gathering wild 
foods during periods of wandering. 
There is also considerable evidence of contact with other peoples. 
At this point comparisons will be made between the peoples of the 
Glen Elder Focus and their contemporaries. Sites 25HN389 and 
25HN45 comprise the Blue Stone Focus, White Rock Aspect (Cum- 
mings, 1953). These sites are located approximately 80 miles west- 
northwest of the Lovewell Reservoir.2, The Blue Stone and Glen 
Elder Foci have been compared in a detailed trait list (Rusco, 1960), 
and a preponderant number of similarities have been demonstrated. 
It will suffice here to mention that the pottery type Walnut Decorated 
Lip was the predominant ware, and the artifact inventories were 
almost identical. 
The Boyd Flared Rim variety of Lynch Ware, recovered at the 
Lynch site (25BD1) in northeastern Nebraska, displays a number of 
attributes in common with Walnut Decorated Lip pottery. The 
bone and stone artifact assemblage is also quite similar. Oneota 
pottery was recovered at the Lynch site and one of the other two 
sites of the Boyd Focus (Freed, MS., 1954). Other superficially 
2Since the completion of this report I have been notified by John L. Champe of the 
Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, that a wood specimen from 25HN45 
has been dendrochronologically dated at A.D. 1614. 
