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oven and a lime kiln, show that a permanent settlement, the second or third
oldest in the New World, was envisaged.
The site is named for the Kecoughtan
Indians, who were especiallyfriendly to
the early colonists. The date of establishment must have been before 1610,
because in that year Governor Gates
expelled all Indians from the neighborhood.
Frantz Reprints
In anticipation of special demand
for copies of Miss Alison Frantz'
photographic article, Truth Before
Beauty, on pages 202 to 214 of this
issue, we have run off a number of
reprints, which may be ordered from
the business office of Archaeology,
100 Washington Square, New York
3, N. Y. These are on sale at 35tf
apiece, or $3.00 in lots of 10.
Early Campers
The emergency archaeological survey of areas to be flooded by federal
dams, a cooperative project of the
Smithsonian Institution, the National
Park Service, and the Bureau of Rec-

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lamation, continued through 1950.
We expect to print an extended summary of this work in the Spring, 1951,
issue.
In the upper reaches of the Angostura Reservoir near Hot Springs,
South Dakota, a party directed by
Richard P. Wheeler discoveredcamp
sites of nomad hunters of perhaps
5000 years ago, whose most characteristic artifact was stone javelin heads
described as similar to, though not
identical with, Yuma points, which
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sidered one of the earliest known implements made by human beings in
the New World.
At the Garrison Reservoir in North
Dakota, a party directed by G. Ellis
Burcaw excavated an earth lodge village, a fortified village of a type peculiar to Indian tribes along the Missouri:
Stockadesbuilt on packed earth walls,
with watchtowers at frequent intervals, encircled by moats. These are
very similar to certain fortified villages of mediaeval Europe, but appear to have preceded the first whitè
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