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With the added results of the current year's work, it is now possible 

 to identify at least nine archeological complexes in the Oahe portion 

 of the Missouri Basin, covering the years about A. D. 850 to 1859. 

 Some indications have been found of occupations belonging to an 

 earlier period, but they are not sufficiently known as yet to be included 

 in the definitely identified list. 



In the Fort Randall Reservoir two field parties operated in the 1955 

 field season. The Nebraska State Historical Society, under a cooper- 

 ative agreement with the National Park Service, had a party directed 

 by Marvin F. Kivett excavating at the Crow Creek site (39BF11). 

 Work was started on this site in the 1954 season and the second sea- 

 son's digging there was completed late in August of 1955. This com- 

 plex site contains the remains of two and possibly three occupations 

 ranging in time over 300 or more years. The season's work provided 

 new data on village plans, house types, fortifications, and relationships 

 of this area to other areas in South Dakota and Nebraska. 



The second party in this area was that of the University of Kansas 

 led by Dr. Carlyle S. Smith of that institution and working under a 

 cooperative agreement with the National Park Service. They exca- 

 vated site 39BF204 over a 7- week period ending the last of July. They 

 also conducted some test excavations in site 39BF201, which appeared 

 to be culturally identical to the former site. Both relate directly to 

 the Spain site (39LM301) and the Talking Crow site (39BF3), which 

 were excavated in previous years by parties under Dr. Smith. 



In the Big Bend Reservoir area a Smithsonian Institution party 

 directed by Harold A. Huscher began an intensive survey and site- 

 testing operation in this newly activated reservoir on the Missouri 

 River in South Dakota on June 2. The party planned to search the 

 entire reservoir area for archeological potentialities. It was scheduled 

 to visit all known sites, locate all possible new sites, and make explora- 

 tory tests in all of them in order to determine what additional excava- 

 tion must be done before inundation. By the end of the fiscal year it 

 had visited and tested 20 sites and had located several others from pre- 

 vious records. 



In the Lovewell Reservoir area a Smithsonian Institution party 

 directed by Robert W. Neuman began the excavation, on June 12, 

 of three sites on White Rock Creek in Jewell County, Kans. They 

 started at site 14JW1 and worked there until the end of the fiscal 

 year. The other two sites are 14JW2 and 14JW201. These sites 

 should help materially in establishing the significance and cultural 



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