82 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
directed by Dr. William Mulloy, excavating at a series of sites in the 
Glendo Reservoir in Platte County, Wyo.; and a party from the 
University of Missouri, directed by Carl Chapman, in the Pomme de 
Terre Reservoir area of west-central Missouri. At the end of the 
fiscal year cooperating institutions were: A party from the University 
of Kansas, directed by Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, excavating at the 
Stricker Village site (89LM1) in the Big Bend Reservoir; a joint 
party from the University of North Dakota and the State Historical 
Society of North Dakota, directed by Dr. James H. Howard, excavat- 
ing at the Huff site (82MO11) in the Oahe Reservoir area; and two 
parties from the University of Missouri, directed by Carl F. Chap- 
man, excavating at a series of sites in the Pomme de Terre Reservoir 
and making preliminary surveys in the Kassinger Bluff Reservoir 
area of west-central Missouri. All these parties were operating 
through agreements with the National Park Service and were coop- 
erating in the Smithsonian Institution research program. 
During the time that the archeologists were not in the field, they 
were engaged in analyses of their materials and in laboratory and 
library research. They also prepared manuscripts of technical scien- 
tific reports and wrote articles and papers of a more popular nature. 
The Missouri Basin Chronology Program, begun by the staff 
archeologists of the Missouri Basin project in January 1958, con- 
tinued to function throughout the current year. This is a coopera- 
tive program, bringing together the enthusiastic support and wide 
range of experience of 34 individuals representing 20 research insti- 
tutions working in the Missouri Basin area. This program, directed 
toward a more precise understanding of time sequences of the pre- 
historic cultures represented by the sites being excavated, is already 
beginning to be useful in more efficient planning of salvage opera- 
tions. Concrete results are being realized with a minimum expendi- 
ture of time and funds. The program includes intensive research 
in dendrochronology, and in this phase the field crews have collected 
wood specimens to be used in developing two master charts, one for 
the lower Big Bend Reservior area and one for the lower Oahe 
Reservior area. Sufficient wood is now on hand to begin preparing 
the master charts into which archeological wood samples may later be 
fitted. In addition, plans are in progress for the services of a full- 
time dendrochronologist, working on other funds, to concentrate his 
efforts on this problem. Research in radioactive carbon-14 analyses 
is well underway within the framework of the program, and 11 speci- 
mens have been submitted to the University of Michigan Memorial- 
Phoenix Project Laboratory under the direction of Prof. H. R. Crane. 
Dates have been returned on all 11, and a second series of specimens 
is being prepared for submission. Pollen samples have been collected 
and are being analyzed by Dr. Paul B. Sears of Yale University. 
