Final Report on the 1980-1981 Mississinewa Reservoir Survey

The survey of the Mississinewa Reservoir was conducted under the direction of William R. Wepler from Ball State University in Grant, Miami and Wabash Counties, Indiana. Two goals were outlined for this survey. The first goal was to locate and evaluate the archaeological resources of the reservoir, and the second goal was to evaluate the impact of the reservoir and its management on the archaeological record of the area. The Lower Mississinewa drainage was established as a unit for comparison to adjacent areas due to questions that arose concerning the relationship of the reservoir area to the remainder of the Mississinewa drainage and to the Upper Wabash drainage in general. Thus information from other sites in the area was included in the report.
The recommendations made following this investigation stemmed from the concern for the future preservation and study of the archaeological resources of the Mississinewa Reservoir. William Wepler suggested that the detailed list of recommendations be used as a preliminary outline for a management plan for the protection and development of the archaeological resources of the Mississinewa Reservoir. Recommendations were made for further testing and surveying to obtain comparative data to perform a complete analysis on the artifactual material collected during this investigation, which would lend to the research of the prehistoric occupation of the Miami (Wepler 1982).

密西西尼瓦水库（Mississinewa Reservoir）的考古调查由印第安纳州格兰特、迈阿密与沃巴什县的鲍尔州立大学（Ball State University）威廉·R·韦普勒（William R. Wepler）主持开展。本次调查设定了两项核心目标：其一为定位并评估该水库区域内的考古资源；其二为评估水库及其管理举措对该区域考古记录的影响。
由于学界对水库区域与密西西尼瓦流域其余区域、乃至整体沃巴什上游流域的关联存在疑问，研究团队将下密西西尼瓦流域设为对比单元，用于与相邻区域开展比对。因此本报告纳入了该区域其他遗址的相关资料。
本次调查后提出的各项建议，源于对密西西尼瓦水库考古资源未来保护与研究的关切。威廉·韦普勒提出，可将这份详细的建议清单作为密西西尼瓦水库考古资源保护与开发管理计划的初步框架。同时建议开展进一步的勘探与调查，以获取对比数据，对本次调查中采集的人工遗物开展完整分析，这将助力迈阿密地区史前定居相关研究的推进（韦普勒 1982）。