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Arcadia Eeservoir area in Nebraska was also made in May; during 

 June one party was at work in the Tuttle Creek Eeservoir area in 

 Kansas, one in the Missouri Breaks area of Montana, two in the 

 Yellowtail Reservoir area of Montana and Wyoming, four in the 

 Oahe Eeservoir area of South Dakota, and three in the Big Bend 

 Eeservoir area of South Dakota. 



Other field work in the Missouri Basin included 12 parties from 

 State institutions operating under agreements with the National Park 

 Service and in cooperation with the Smitlisonian Institution in the 

 Inter- Agency Archeological Salvage Program. 



Appropriated funds for this fiscal year were materially increased 

 over the previous 2 years, thus permitting a substantial increase in 

 the amount of salvage that could be accomplished. Most of this new 

 activity came at the end of the fiscal year since the field season at the 

 beginning was nearly completed before the new money became avail- 

 able. The field parties at work at the start of the year were conduct- 

 ing intensive excavations of key sites. Toward the end of the year, 

 when the 1962 field season began, crews were engaged in intensive 

 surveys of new areas, sampling of large numbers of sites in other 

 areas, and carrying on intensive excavations at a series of key sites 

 in several reservoir basins. 



At the beginning of the year Eobert W. Neuman, assisted by 

 William G. Buckles, was directing a crew of 10 Indian laborers exca- 

 vating a series of 8 prehistoric burial mounds near the Big Bend 

 Dam in central South Dakota. Having begun work on June 7 of 

 the previous fiscal year, this party continued in the field until Sep- 

 tember 8. Three low, dome-shaped, earthen mounds were excavated 

 at the Sitting Crow site (39BF225).^ The mounds, ranging from 

 2 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter to nearly twice that size, 

 contained 10 intrusive historic interments representing at least 3 types 

 of burials. These were primary burials in wooden coffins, primary 

 burials in pits, and a secondary bundle burial. Some of the coffin 

 burials were associated with grave posts and were scattered, singly, 

 while others were associated with the pit burials within a circular 

 enclosure of vertical posts. Glass, metal, wood, stone, leather, and 

 fabric grave goods were recovered from this historic component. 

 The burial mound complex proper was represented by single and 

 multiple secondary burials. These remains were found scattered 

 about on the mound floor or sometimes deposited in shallow, sub- 



1 Site designations ueed by the River Basin Surveys are trinomial In character, consisting 

 of symbols for State, county, and site. The State Is indicated by the first number, accord- 

 ing to the numerical position of the State name In an alphabetical list of the United States ; 

 thus, for example, 32 indicates North Dakota, 89 Indicates South Dakota. Counties are 

 designated by a two-letter abbreviation ; for example, ME for Mercer County, MN for 

 Mountrail County, etc. The final number refers to the specific site within the Indicated 

 State and county. 



