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   Lexington Ohio Valley Archaeological Research Associates for US Forest Service   I have copied extensive amounts of text because no copyright notice is present  its a case of       page  Cowans investigations at the Rogers Shelters Po and Po and the Haystack Shelter PoA and B have provided ethnobotanical analyses of materials obtained under more controlled conditions  Radiocarbon dates from the Rogers Shelters indicate the site was occupied between the fifth and seventh centuries AD and Cowan  postulates a similar timespan page  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   page  Cowan conducted limited test excavations at two of the bottomland sites Po and Po in   One of these sites the Martin Site Po produced roughened surface pootery which is similar to ceramics from the Levisa Fork in the extreme Eastern Mountains Cowan In  members of the Red River Historical Society and volunteers from the university of Kentucky Department of Anthropology conducted excavations at Mf a singlecomponent 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  cm suggested a relatively shortterm occupancy Cowan   Unfortunately the materials from Mf have not yet been analyzed and reported  page  This page notes that Cowans  survey undertaken in response to changes in plans for the reservoir gained stratigraphic information on a multicomponent Archaic site Po in the valley  Cowan returned the following year to complete testing at Po and Po and to initiate excavation at PoB a Woodland rockshelter site  The data recovered from Po confirmed Cowans  stratigraphic sequence and provided valuable information on the transition between the Late Archaic and Early Woodland cultures in page  the Red River valley Cowan ii  Excavations at the Haystack Shelter PoB a Late Woodland dry shelter site uncovered a large quantity of wellpreserved 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