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74 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1952 



Mr. Hartle presented a paper on the investigations at Rock Village 

 before the Ninth Conference for Plains Archeology at Lincoln in 

 April. 



Donald J. Lehmer, archeologist, conducted excavations from July 1 

 to September 10 at the Phillips Ranch site in the Oahe Reservoir near 

 Pierre, S. Dak. Returning to Lincoln from South Dakota Mr. 

 Lehmer devoted the period to December 31, when his appointment 

 with the River Basin Surveys terminated, to completing a technical 

 report on the results of two seasons' work in the Oahe area. This 

 report, consisting of 250 manuscript pages, presents in detail the infor- 

 mation obtained from the Dodd and Phillips Ranch sites. Publica- 

 tion of the report is planned for the next fiscal year. In addition Mr. 

 Lehmer completed two shorter articles which were published in 

 American Antiquity for April 1952. One was "The Fort Pierre 

 Branch, Central South Dakota." The other was on an Oklahoma 

 project and is referred to in a later section of this report. 



George Metcalf, field and laboratory assistant, worked with the 

 Hartle party in the Garrison Reservoir during July and August. In 

 addition to taking an active part in the excavations he made a series 

 of surveys in the area and located a number of new sites. In Septem- 

 ber he joined the Smith party in the investigations at Fort Stevenson 

 and in October participated in a reconnaissance of the region adjacent 

 to Fort Stevenson. During the winter months he checked the survey 

 records and prepared a supplemental report on the archeological 

 resources of the Garrison Reservoir. He assisted in the analysis of 

 artifacts from the Rock Village and collaborated in the preparation 

 of the section of a technical report dealing with trade materials and 

 pottery. In May Mr. Metcalf made a survey of the Big Sandy Reser- 

 voir in the Eden Valley, western Wyoming. In June, during an 

 emergency, he took charge of one of the parties in the Oahe area for a 

 2- week period. On June 30 he was en route to join the party under 

 G. H. Smith in the Garrison Reservoir, N. Dak. 



Carl F. Miller, archeologist, transferred to the Missouri Basin for 

 the season, spent the latter part of July, August, and until September 

 13 digging in a historic site in the Fort Randall Reservoir near Cham- 

 berlain, S. Dak. When the excavations were completed Mr. Miller 

 proceeded to Lincoln where he spent two weeks completing field records 

 and other data. From Lincoln he returned to his base at the Washing- 

 ton office where he finished his report on the summer's activities. 



John E. Mills joined the staff of the Missouri Basin project as 

 an archeologist on April 10, 1952. During April and May he ex- 

 amined and studied all the records and artifacts pertaining to historic- 

 site research in the Fort Randall Reservoir area and in May made a 

 brief survey trip through the reservoir basin with National Park 

 Service representatives of Region Two to determine what historic 



