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MISSOURI 



As in previous years, salvage work in Missouri Basin reservoirs 

 within this State was not undertaken by the River Basin Surveys, but 

 the University of Missouri carried out reconnaissance and testing in 

 reservoirs both within and outside the basin. During 1950, the Uni- 

 versity's Summer Field Session in Archaeology spent approximately 

 two weeks in the Pomme de Terre Reservoir and some time in the 

 Kasinger Bluff Reservoir. At the former, situated on the Pomme de 

 Terre River, a tributary of the Osage River, approximately 50 new 

 sites were found, and test trenches were excavated in two sites. Ap- 

 proximately 25 sites were recorded in the Kasinger Bluff Reservoir, 

 on the Osage River, and two of these were tested. These activities 

 were in addition to investigation in the Bull Shoals Reservoir, on the 

 White River, outside the Missouri Basin. 



MONTANA 



In Montana, the Canyon Ferry Reservoir area, previously surveyed 

 briefly by small parties from the River Basin Surveys in 1946 and 

 1947 and from Montana State University in 1949, was again in 1950 

 the scene of archeological investigations, this time by a minimum 

 party of five from the latter institution. The work, supervised by 

 Carling Malouf, was done under a memorandum of agreement with 

 the National Park Service. At the end of this summer a total of 84 

 sites had been recorded in the district including the reservoir; 59 of 

 these would be flooded upon impoundment of water behind the com- 

 pleted dam. The 1950 operations consisted of search for new sites, 

 intensive examination of those newly discovered and previously re- 

 corded, the excavation of test trenches in more promising locations, 

 and an extensive mapping program. The resulting picture does not 

 differ materially from that revealed by previous less intensive inves- 

 tigations and described by Wedel in the 1947 and 1949 summary re- 

 ports (Wedel, 1948; 1953b). Most of the sites are marked by the 

 presence of stone hearths, boulder circles, chipping debris, or combina- 

 tions of these features. Diagnostic artifacts were scanty both on the 

 surface and in the excavations, and even such undistinctive objects 

 as modified flakes appear not to have been abundant. As in previous 

 years, no pottery was observed anywhere in the area. Both stemmed 

 and side-notched projectile points are reported, but these apparently 

 were found in such small numbers and so rarely in significant con- 

 texts that little light was shed on the problems of their associations 

 with other cultural items or their temporal relationships. Artifacts 



