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A few brief articles based on the work of the Missouri Basin 

 Project appeared in print during 1950 and 195 1, but comprehensive 

 reports of the results of fieldwork were either in press or still being 

 prepared. During 1950, two papers prepared by former staff mem- 

 bers were published. They were : "Birdshead Cave, a Stratified Site 

 in Wind River Basin, Wyoming," by Wesley L. Bliss, in American 

 Antiquity, vol. 15, No. 3, and "An Experiment in Relative Dating of 

 Archeological Remains by Stream Terraces," by Jack T. Hughes, in 

 Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society Bulletin, vol. 21. 

 Also published during 1950 was the "Proceedings of the Sixth Plains 

 Archeological Conference, 1948" (University of Utah Anthropologi- 

 cal Papers No. 11), in which appeared a number of brief papers by 

 members of the staff. A paper based on his excavations in the Oahe 

 Dam area by Donald J. Lehmer, "Pottery Types from the Dodd Site, 

 Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota," appeared in the September 1951 

 issue of the Plains Archeological Conference News Letter. 



A few reports intended for publication were completed during the 

 period but had not yet been printed by the end of 195 1. They in- 

 cluded a report on the Woodruff ossuary, prepared by Marvin F. 

 Kivett (1953) on the basis of his excavation of the site in 1947; a 

 paper synthesizing data from the Oahe Dam area, by Donald J. 

 Lehmer (1952) ; two papers on paleontological subjects, one on the 

 Boysen Reservoir area, the other on the Canyon Ferry area, by 

 Theodore E. White (1952b, 1954) ; and a paper by White (1952a) 

 on the butchering techniques of the inhabitants of two sites in the 

 Angostura Reservoir area as reflected by the animal bones recovered. 



The status of reports uncompleted at the end of 1951 varied 

 greatly, depending partly on the schedule of excavations. The manu- 

 script of the report on excavations at the Dodd and Philip Ranch 

 sites, in the Oahe Dam vicinity, in 1950 and 195 1 was all but com- 

 plete (Lehmer, 1954), while in other instances, where the first exca- 

 vation was accomplished during the summer of 1951, analysis had 

 just begun. This was true of the Oldham site in the Fort Randall 

 Reservoir, Fort Stevenson in the Garrison Reservoir, the Cheyenne 

 River site in the Oahe Reservoir, and the various sites in the Keyhole 

 Reservoir. In the case of the Rock Village, in the Garrison Reservoir, 

 where excavation was begun in 1950, additional large-scale excavation 

 was undertaken in 1951 to round out the picture of that extremely 

 important site. Reporting of the work of 1950 in Tiber Reservoir 

 was held in abeyance, since it was felt that additional work should 

 be done in a significant buried site, 24TL26, which had been inade- 

 quately explored. Analysis of the results at Angostura Reservoir 



