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 u s forest service i have copied extensive amounts of text because no copyright notice is present it's a case of page cowan's investigations at the roger's shelters po and po and the haystack shelter po a 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 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 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 cm suggested a relatively short term occupancy cowan unfortunately the materials from mf have not yet been analyzed and reported page this page notes that cowan's 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 po b a woodland rockshelter site the data recovered from po confirmed cowan's 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 po b 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