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directed by Dr. William Mulloy, excavating at a series of sites in the 

 Glendo Eeservoir in Platte County, V/yo. ; 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 

 Strieker Village site (39LM1) 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 (32M011) 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, begmi 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. Sufffcient 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. 



