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Project staff for the summer as temporary employees, in order to 

 conduct laboratory research. Dr. Bass and his assistant analyzed a 

 large quantity of skeletal material, excavated over the past several 

 years by Dr. Bass, from several Missouri Basin sites in the Oahe 

 Reservoir. Principal of these was the Sully site (39SL4) where 557 

 burials have been recovered. Bass and Birkby were working in the 

 new laboratory facilities at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. 



Cooperating institutions in the Missouri Basin at the end of the year 

 included eight parties operating in five States. Dr. Dee C. Taylor 

 and a Montana State University crew were continuing the shoreline 

 survey of the Fort Peck Reservoir in east-central Montana, searching 

 for and testing sites that had been exposed by bank erosion. Robert 

 Gant and a University of South Dakota party were continuing a 

 shoreline survey of the Gavins Point Reservoir in southeastern South 

 Dakota, searching for and testing sites that had been exposed by bank 

 erosion. Particular emphasis was being placed on the search for 

 Plains Woodland and earlier sites. Both of these parties were con- 

 tinumg work begmi the previous season. Dr. Preston Holder, assisted 

 by James Marshall and a crew of University of Nebraska students, 

 was excavating the Glen Elder site in the Glen Elder Reservoir in 

 Mitchell County, north-central Kansas, and was searcliing for and 

 testing additional sites within that reservoir. Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, 

 assisted by Jon Muller and a party of Kansas University students, 

 began the survey and testing of sites in the area to be flooded by the 

 Milford Reservoir in Clay County, north-central Kansas. Dr. Carl 

 Chapman had three University of Missouri parties at work at the 

 end of the year. One was a survey group locating and testing sites 

 in the area to be flooded by the Hackleman Comers Reservoir in south- 

 western Missouri. A second party was excavating sites in the Kay- 

 singer Blufi' Reservoir in west-central Missouri. The third party 

 was digging sites in the Stockton Reservoir of west-central Missouri. 

 Both of the latter were continuing work begun the previous season. 

 Marvin F.'Kivett, assisted by Dr. Roger T. Grange, Jr., and a Nebraska 

 State Historical Society crew, surveyed two small reservoirs, Calamus 

 and Davis Creek, in central Nebraska. Both surveys located only a 

 few sites of doubtful archeological potential and it was recommended 

 that no further work be done there unless material is uncovered duririg 

 earth-moving operations for the construction of the two dams. 



The Missouri Basin Chronology Program had been in operation for 

 ^V2 years by the end of the year. Cooperation of nearly all the 

 archeologists and archeological institutions in the Plains area con- 

 tinued as in previous years, and leadership and direction of the pro- 

 gram continued to be by the staff archeologists of the Missouri Basin 

 Project. 



