River Basin Surveys Papers. Edited by Frank H. H. RobertsJr. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 176, (River Basin Surveys Papers, Numbers 15-20), Washington, 1960. x + 337 pp., 25 figs., 65 pls., 7 maps, index. $4.00.

1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-254
Author(s):  
Roger T. Grange
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Smithsonian Institution

Archaeological Investigations in Ellsworth and Rice Counties, Kansas

1949 ◽  
Vol 14 (4Part1) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlyle S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Arkansas River ◽  
Reservoir Area ◽  
Dakota Sandstone

Archaeological investigations were carried on by the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, from June 19 to August 20, 1948, in the Kanopolis Reservoir area on the Smoky Hill River in Ellsworth County and also along the Little Arkansas River in Rice County, Kansas. The River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution had undertaken the preliminary reconnaissance and had found more than twenty sites in the area of the Reservoir. William O. Leuty of Ellsworth was helpful in guiding the field parties of both institutions to most of the sites; also he gathered surface collections which were turned over to us.The Kanopolis Reservoir is situated in the highly dissected terrain which marks the Plains border along the 98th meridian of longitude in central Kansas. The Smoky Hill River meanders eastward, fed by many tributary streams and canyons. Outcrops of Dakota sandstone are common on the bluffs bordering the valley and trees are limited to the edges of the streams.

The Deep-Basined Metate of the Southern California Coast

1954 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Mohr
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Interesting Problem ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
California Coast ◽  
Santa Barbara County ◽  
Ground Cavity ◽  
The Way

Deep-basined metates are frequently found in early sites on the southern California coast, but the faces of the accompanying manos usually are only moderately convex. Mano faces examined by the writer never have been sufficiently excurvate to make contact with the grinding surfaces of the deeply ground metates. This presents an interesting problem: how were the manos manipulated on the metates?An examination of specimens from Oak Grove sites 7, 21, and 79 (Rogers, 1929) and the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys’ sites 4SBa477 and 4SBa485 in Santa Barbara County, California, reveals the following associations and characteristics. Slab, shallow-basined, and deep-basined metates are found in association. The first two types exhibit an unbroken grinding area, but specimens of the latter almost invariably have a slight shoulder running at least a part of the way around the basin, the transition between a slightly concave ground area and the deeply ground cavity.

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