96 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



North Dakota. Archeological work during the current year was con- 

 centrated within the reservoir areas since the canal routes are not yet 

 established. Tlie Taayer Reservoir east of Oakes, N. Dak., is pres- 

 ently an open water slough. No sites were found to be endangered 

 but a probable bison kill site (32SA1) was reported here in the 1930's 

 when the reservoir was dry. A "stone ring" site (32SA2) was re- 

 corded by the sur^^ey party but it lies in the uplands outside of the 

 reservoir. Hamburg Reservoir on the upper James River produced 

 no sites. New Home Reservoir, in McLean County, N. Dak., east 

 and south of the Garrison Dam, is in a long glacial drainage trench. 

 Only a single site, 32ML212, was found here. It consisted princi- 

 pally of bison bone eroding from a cutbank but a number of chalcedony 

 flakes were f oimd in association. 



The Lone Tree Reservoir, which will include the headwaters of the 

 Sheyenne River, held a nmnber of sites and others were found in the 

 immediate vicinity. Probably the most significant within the reser- 

 voir is 32SH2, a large complex of boulder burial mounds. At least 

 14 mounds are included, and associated habitation sites are possible. 

 The party completed its survey on September 20. Because work was 

 intermittent, the field season totaled only 49 days. 



A postseason (October 21-November 4) field party of two men, 

 directed by Wilfred M. Husted, excavated at Fort Laramie National 

 Historic Site, testing in four localities that will be affected by future 

 expansion of visitor facilities. The remains of what is probably the 

 Ward anad Guerrier trading post were found, as well as evidences of 

 an aboriginal occupation. The latter was far too scanty to even 

 hazard an etlinic or archeological affiliation. 



Late in September representatives of the Nebraska Game, Foresta- 

 tion and Parks Commission contacted the Missouri Basin Project con- 

 cerning certain stone and pottery artifacts found during biological 

 researcli in the Little Nemaha drainage of southeastern Nebraska. 

 The artifacts examined by the Missouri Basin Project staff included 

 materials suggesting the presence of Stearns Creek, Logan Creek, and 

 Agate Basin complexes. On November 12, after the heavy summer 

 vegetation was gone, Robert W. Nemnan reexamined the area in com- 

 pany with Nebraska game biologists. Previous find spots were exam- 

 ined on Brownell Creek and Wolf Creek, but imfortunately the arti- 

 facts fomid to date have been secondary deposits and no true occupa- 

 tion sites were discovered. 



Cooperating institutions working in the Missouri Basin at the be- 

 gimiing of the fiscal year included the University of Montana, the 

 University of South Dakota, the University of Nebraska, the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, and the Kansas State Historical Society. 



Dr. Dee C. Taylor of the University of Montana contmued the 



