Publication: Medicine Creek: Seventy Years of Archaeological Investigations
Author: Robert Blasing
Date of Publication: 2002
PDF File: Blasing-Nebraska-State-Historical-Society-and-River-Basin-.pdf
Description
Medicine Creek Reservoir was completed in 1949. It was built primarily to control destructive both on Medicine Creek and in the Republican River drainage, and also as part of the Irrigation Project, administered by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). Although there were important archaeological investigations along Medicine Creek as early as 1931 (Roper, Chapter 8, this volume), most archaeological research there has been done in response to construction and subsequent management of the reservoir. Salvage in the Medicine Creek valley was one of the first archaeological projects of the Smithsonian Institution’s River Basin Survey (RBS).