Additional information The following materials are taken from Wyss James D and Sandra K Wyss An Archaeological Assessment of Portions of the Red River Gorge Daniel Boone National Forest Kentucky Archaeological Report No 1 Lexington Ohio Valley Archaeological Research Associates for U S Forest Service 1977 I have copied extensive amounts of text because no copyright notice is present it s a case of page 33 Cowan s investigations at the Roger s Shelters Po 26 and Po 27 and the Haystack Shelter Po 47A and B have provided ethnobotanical analyses of materials obtained under more controlled conditions Radiocarbon dates from the Roger s Shelters indicate the site was occupied between the fifth and seventh centuries A D and Cowan 1976 97 98 postulates a similar timespan page 34 for the Haystack Shelter occupation Plant food remains from the site include six species of nuts black walnut butternut hickory chestnut acorn and hazelnut four species of fruits pawpaw sumac plum and grape and four or five possible cultigens squash or pumpkin bottle gourd marsh elder sunflower and canary grass No corn was recovered Fragments of cane basketry prepared bark and cordage were also collected Cowan 1976 87 101 page 36 Cowan conducted limited test excavations at two of the bottomland sites Po 31 and Po 42 in 1974 One of these sites the Martin Site Po 42 produced roughened surface pootery which is similar to ceramics from the Levisa Fork in the extreme Eastern Mountains Cowan 1976 73 82 In 1973 members of the Red River Historical Society and volunteers from the university of Kentucky Department of Anthropology conducted excavations at Mf 32 a single component Fort Ancient rockshelter site Materials recovered included corn husks cordage cut cane two species of nuts and shell tempered pottery in addition to lithic materials The depth of the deposit approximately 10 15 cm suggested a relatively short term occupancy Cowan 1975 101 102 Unfortunately the materials from Mf 32 have not yet been analyzed and reported page 50 This page notes that Cowan s 1975 survey undertaken in response to changes in plans for the reservoir gained stratigraphic information on a multicomponent Archaic site Po 17 in the valley Cowan returned the following year to complete testing at Po 17 and Po 42 and to initiate excavation at Po 47B a Woodland rockshelter site The data recovered from Po 17 confirmed Cowan s 1973 stratigraphic sequence and provided valuable information on the transition between the Late Archaic and Early Woodland cultures in page 51 the Red River valley Cowan 1976 ii Excavations at the Haystack Shelter Po 47B a Late Woodland dry shelter site uncovered a large quantity of well preserved organic remains Split cane basketry fragments plant fiber cordage leather quids paleofeces and numerous plant food remains including both native and exotic cultigens were among the specimens recovered