Report on the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology 



Sm: I have the honor to submit the following report on the field 

 researches, office work, and other operations of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1962, conducted 

 in accordance with the act of Congress of April 10, 1928, as amended 

 August 22, 1949, whicli directs the Bureau "to contmue independently 

 or in cooperation anthropological researches among the American In- 

 dians and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of 

 the United States and the excavation and preservation of archeologic 

 remains." 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., director, devoted a portion of his time 

 to office duties and the general supervision of the Bureau and the River 

 Basin Surveys. In mid- July in company with Dr. Robert L. Stephen- 

 son, chief of the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys, 

 and Dr. John M. Corbett, archeologist for the National Park Service, 

 he made an inspection trip to the River Basin Surveys excavating 

 parties in the Missouri Basin and visited several local institutions 

 which were conducting excavations in cooperation with the Inter- 

 Agency Archeological Salvage Program. He then proceeded to the 

 Agate Basin Site in eastern Wyoming where a joint Smithsonian In- 

 stitution-National Geographic Society party imder his general direc- 

 tion was digging in a site attributable to one of tlie early hunting 

 groups in the Plains area. Dr. Roberts remained at the site until the 

 work was terminated early in August. The immediate field work was 

 under the direction of Dr. William M. Bass. During the course of 

 the investigations numerous cut and split animal bones with evidence 

 both for a kill and for a camping area were found. Associated with 

 them were a variety of stone and bone implements. Most of the ani- 

 mal bones have been identified as representing bison of an extinct 

 species, Bison antiquus. A few of the bones undoubtedly represent 

 one of the Cervidae, but they are not diagnostic of species. Also, 

 there were a few jack-rabbit bones. The artifacts in addition to pro- 

 jectile points include various forms of scrapers, flake knives, spoke 

 shaves, flakes with graver's points, and a few bone tools. This assem- 

 blage of implements represents a definite contribution because it makes 



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