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The McNutt, Stephenson, and Bass parties shared a joint field 

 camp in the vicinity of the Sully site. Such 2- and 3-party field 

 camps were proving to be efficient and economical, as many of the 

 activities and expenses of several parties could be combined. The 

 necessary field equipment, vehicles, number of cooks, and other ex- 

 penses were proportionately reduced. The consultative advantage of 

 having two or three archeologists in a single camp was proving to be 

 of great help in discussions pertaining to excavation methods and 

 general archeological interpretations. 



Cooperating institutions in the Oahe Reservoir area at the beginning 

 of the fiscal year included a party from the University of South Dakota 

 directed by Dr. Wesley E. Hurt, Jr. ; a party from the University of 

 Idaho under the direction of Dr. Alfred Bowers; and a party from 

 the State Historical Society of North Dakota, directed by Daniel J. 

 Scheans. At the end of the fiscal year cooperating institutions in the 

 Oahe Eeservoir included a party from the University of South Dakota 

 directed by Eugene Fugle ; a party from the University of Idaho di- 

 rected by Dr. Alfred Bowers; a party from the State Historical 

 Society of ISTorth Dakota and the University of North Dakota com- 

 bined, directed by Dr. James H. Howard. In other reservoirs in the 

 Missouri Basin cooperating institutions had parties in the field at the 

 beginning of the year as follows : The University of Wyoming, with 

 a party directed by Dr. William Mulloy in the Glendo Reservoir of 

 southeastern Wyoming; the University of Kansas, with a party di- 

 rected by Dr. Carlyle S. Smith in the Tuttle Creek Reservoir of north- 

 eastern Kansas ; and the University of Missouri with a party directed 

 by Carl Chapman in the Pomme de Terre Reservoir of west-central 

 Missouri. At the end of the fiscal year cooperating institutions were : 

 The University of Wyoming with a party directed by Dr. William 

 Mulloy in the Glendo Reservoir area and the University of Missouri 

 with a party directed by Carl Chapman in the Pomme de Terre Reser- 

 voir area. All these parties were operating through agreements with 

 the National Park Service and were cooperating 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. 



During January the first steps were taken by the staff archeologists 

 of the Missouri Basin Project toward a long-range Missouri Basin 

 Chronology Program. This program is a new departure in the field 

 of salvage archeology and is directed toward a more precise under- 

 standing of the time sequences of the prehistoric cultures represented 

 in the sites being excavated in the Missouri Basin. One primary ob- 

 jective of the program is to be able to plan future salvage excavations 



