SECRETARY’S REPORT 81 
these sites and the age of the sites thus be correlated with the climatic 
changes. Details of ecology are thereby added to the archeological 
records salvaged from the reservoir to provide a fuller picture of the 
prehistory of the area. 
The 1959 summer field season in the Missouri Basin began in the 
Big Bend Reservoir area on June 4 with a single small crew, en- 
camped near the Hickey Brothers site on the right bank of the Mis- 
souri River in Lyman County. Dr. Warren W. Caldwell and a crew 
of six began work on a series of sites at and near the proposed right 
(west) abutment of the Big Bend Dam, near the mouths of Good . 
Soldier Creek and Counselor Creek. On Good Soldier Creek, site 
391.M235 was found to have been largely destroyed by construction 
during the winter of several small boat-landing ramps, but test pits 
were excavated in the remaining portion of the site. Very little ma- 
terial was recovered. The nearby site, 39L.M236, was found to be 
completely inundated by an unusually high water level in the Fort 
Randall Reservoir and no work was possible. At the mouth of Coun- 
selor Creek, the Useful Heart site (39LM6) was extensively trenched 
and full-scale excavation of this earth-lodge village site was in prog- 
ress at the end of the year. 
The only other Missouri Basin project party at work im June was 
a team of physical anthropologists consisting of William M. Bass, ITT, 
and two assistants. This team, working out of the Lincoln ofiice, 
began operations on June 17 at the Department of Anthropology, 
University of Nebraska, making metric analyses of a large group of 
human skeletal remains from several reservoir areas in the Missouri 
Basin, and from other sites in the area. The team spent 5 days on a 
trip to the University of Oklahoma at Norman to make similar 
analyses, and at the end of the fiscal year was back in Lincoln study- 
ing the skeletal remains from sites in the Oahe Reservoir area. This 
party was materially assisted by a grant-in-aid to Bass from the 
University of Pennsylvania, Child Growth and Development Center, 
through the kindness of Dr. Wilton K. Krogman. This grant pro- 
vided the salary for Bass and one assistant during June. 
Cooperating institutions at work in the Missouri Basin at the be- 
ginning of the fiscal year included a party from the University of 
South Dakota, directed by Eugene B. Fugle, excavating at the Four 
Bears site (89DW2) in the Oahe Reservoir area; a party from the 
University of Idaho, directed by Dr. Alfred E. Bowers, excavating 
for the second season at the Rygh site (89CA4) in the Oahe Reser- 
voir area; a joint party from the University of North Dakota and 
the State Historical Society of North Dakota, under the direction of 
Dr. James H. Howard, excavating at the Tony Glas site (32EM3) in 
the Oahe Reservoir area; a party from the University of Wyoming, 
