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Notes on Colorado River Basin Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Gordon C. Baldwin
Gordon C. Baldwin*
Affiliation:
Lake Mead Recreational Area , National Park Service , Boulder City, Nevada , March, 1948
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A recent article in American Antiquity entitled “Symposium on River Valley Archaeology” summarizes the present status of one of our most important and urgent problems in American archaeology today. Additional information concerning this subject, particularly with reference to the progress made in the Colorado River Valley, should be mentioned at this time.

The National Park Service has been concerned with survey and salvage operations in proposed reservoir areas along the Colorado River and its tributaries for many years. Long before final construction work was completed on Hoover (formerly Boulder) Dam in 1935, several C.C.C. archaeological crews were at work under National Park Service direction in the areas to be inundated, particularly along the Virgin and Muddy rivers in southeastern Nevada.

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American Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 1948 , pp. 128 - 129
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

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References

1 American Antiquity, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 209–25, April, 1947.

2 Harrington, M. R.: “A New Deal in Archeology,” The Masterkey, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 12–14, Los Angeles, 1934 Google Scholar; “Progress in Nevada,” The Masterkey, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 189–90, Los Angeles, 1935 Google Scholar; and “A Stratified Camp-site near Boulder Dam,” The Masterkey, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 86–9, Los Angeles, 1937.Google Scholar

3 Baldwin, Gordon C., “Notes on Rampart Cave,” The Masterkey, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 94–6, Los Angeles, 1946 Google Scholar.

4 Setzler, Frank M., “Riding the Yampa,” National Parks Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 72, pp. 21–6, Washington, 1943 Google Scholar; Baldwin, Gordon C., “An Archeological Reconnaissance of the Yampa and Green Rivers,” The Kiva, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 31–6, Tucson, 1947 Google Scholar.

5 Baldwin, Gordon C., “An Occurrence of Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Pottery in Northwestern Arizona North of the Grand Canyon,” The Plateau, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 14–16, Flagstaff, 1944.Google Scholar

6 A preliminary paper on the results of this survey and excavation program was presented by the writer at the joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for American Archaeology at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on December 29,1947.