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of one feature was made at the Hickey Brothers site (39LM4), ex- 

 cavated by Bernard Golden in 1958. There a probable rectangular 

 house pattern was partially uncovered, but the data from the site still 

 are inadequate for a convincing demonstration of the cukural group 

 to which it belongs. 



In all, the Caldwell party examined 21 sites, of which 1 was a burial 

 mound group, 1 was a large village probably of the rectangular house 

 period, 4 were large villages of late circular earth lodges, 1 was a 

 stratified village of rectangular earth lodges overlain by an occupa- 

 tion of later, circular earth lodges, and 14 sites which were sporadi- 

 cally occupied camps producing little diagnostic material. Except 

 for the Pretty Head site (39LM232), all others in this area may now 

 be written oif as not requiring further investigation unless sometliing 

 new is uncovered in the course of construction of the Big Bend Dam. 

 The Caldwell party terminated the season's work on August 6, after 

 9 weeks in the field. 



The second River Basin Surveys party in the field at the beginning 

 of the year was a team of physical anthropologists consisting of 

 William M. Bass, III, and two assistants. They were engaged in a 

 survey of hmnan skeletal materials from all the reservoir areas in 

 the Missouri Basin, as well as skeletal materials from other institu- 

 tions and areas outside reservoirs for the purpose of bringing together 

 data on all the presently extant Indian remains from the Plains area. 

 They visited all the field camps, assisting in the excavation of burials 

 where needed, and went to all the museums and other repositories of 

 archeological materials in the general area. They took anthropometric 

 measurements on the remains of over 2,000 individuals, studying 22 

 institutional collections and visiting 11 field camps in Oklahoma, 

 Kansas, INIissouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South 

 Dakota, and North Dakota. The analyses of the scores of measure- 

 ments, both cranial and postcranial, taken on each of the 2,000 indi- 

 viduals, will provide the first broad study of the physical character- 

 istics of the Indians who occupied the prehistoric villages in the 

 various reservoir areas in the Missouri Basin. With the data on the 

 differences between the physical types, the archeologist will be in a 

 much better position to understand the cultural movements of peoples 

 between villages and village areas. This field party was materially 

 assisted, tlirough the kindness of Dr. Wilton K. Krogman, by a grant- 

 in-aid to Bass from the University of Pennsylvania Child Growth 

 and Development Center. The party completed its season on August 

 21, a iter 9 weeks in the field. 



The third River Basin Surveys field party of the 1959 season began 

 work in the Little Bend area of Sully County, South Dakota, in the 

 Oahe Reservoir, on July 2. It consisted of a crew of seven under the 



