Abstract
THE Government of the United States is undertaking a large flood control and development programme in the Missouri Valley, and this will result in the destruction or submergence of many archaeological sites which badly need study. Work in the area is a race against time, and "Prehistory and the Missouri Development Program", by W. R. Wedel (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 107, No. 6), is a summary of what is already known about the archaeology, together with an account of a preliminary survey, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, done during the field season of 1946, in order to determine which sites ought to be excavated before they are overwhelmed.
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Archæology of the Missouri Valley. Nature 161, 636 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161636b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161636b0