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Together with the results of the intensive work of the River Basin 

 Surveys in the Medicine Creek Reservoir, new information on Upper 

 Republican and Woodland manifestations should provide, in the 

 case of the former, a comprehensive cultural picture unprecedented 

 in the Plains and, in the case of the latter, illumination of the varia- 

 tions present in the region. Continuing excavations at White Cat 

 Village constitute an unusually thorough study of a single Dismal 

 River community and should reveal much in regard to the community 

 plan and the everyday life of the inhabitants. Finally, it is to be hoped 

 that work in sites of a fourth manifestation will permit an adequate 

 definition of a complex about which tantalizingly little is known from 

 sites at Glen Elder, Kansas, and on White Rock Creek, in the Love- 

 well Reservoir area. 



Perhaps the outstanding contribution of the work of the Nebraska 

 State Historical Society in the Trenton Reservoir consists in the addi- 

 tional information it produced on the range and character of the 

 Woodland variant known as the Keith focus, although the presence of 

 two or three new, as yet undefinable. Woodland variants was also 

 demonstrated. 



By far the largest part of the resources of the agencies engaged in 

 the salvage program was expended on the Missouri River in the 

 Dakotas, where hundreds of village sites will be flooded when three 

 large dams now under construction are completed. In the Garrison 

 Reservoir, North Dakota, the River Basin Surveys excavated in two 

 earth-lodge village sites, 32ME15 and 32ME16, and in a frontier 

 military post. Fort Stevenson (32ML1). The extensive excavations 

 in the Rock Village (32ME15), probably occupied by a predomi- 

 nantly Hidatsa group, are the first of any magnitude accomplished 

 in a site attributable to this tribe, and reveal Hidatsa culture before 

 any appreciable replacement by objects of industrial society origin 

 had taken place. The Star Village (32ME16), on the other hand, 

 represents a village of the Arikara, a group with a material culture 

 fundamentally similar to that of the Hidatsa, at a time when the earth 

 lodge was still built but artifacts of White origin had largely replaced 

 native products. In part still later in time is the Like-a-Fishhook 

 site, composed of earth lodges and cabins, occupied by the three village 

 tribes — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — mainly in the latter half 

 of the nineteenth century. Small camp sites investigated by the Uni- 

 versity of Montana in the same vicinity probably represents occupa- 

 tions by small hunting and gathering parties from the larger earth- 

 lodge villages in the region. 



Recent excavations by the River Basin Surveys and other institu- 



