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This is the twelfth in a series of annual reports summarizing current field and research activities within the Missouri River Basin under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys research continued apace in 1967 although field operations were somewhat curtailed for fiscal reasons. Three River Basin Surveys field parties operated within the Missouri Basin during the season and one made a brief reconnaissance of the Garrison...
Archeological Progress Report No. 5, Field Season of 1960 (1960)
The primary purpose of these informal reports is to outline the current work in the Missouri Basin and discuss some of the general problems involved. Response to such reports in the past has been encouraging and helpful, even aiding in the settling of some future policies. We hope we will, with this report, continue to receive response and constructive criticisms that will assist in getting the most out of the Salvage Program. This is one of the most crucial periods in the entire Inter-Agency...
Descriptive Analysis of Unmodified Vertebrate Remains From the Medicine Creek Site, Lyman County, South Dakota (1975)
The Vertebrate materials treated in this analysis were from the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys field parties in 1962 and 1967 during the archeological investigations of the Medicine Creek site (39LM2), located on the right bank of the Missouri River five miles west of the present town of Lower Brule. The investigations revealed remains of three temporally distinct occupations representing the Initial and Extended Variants of the Coalescent Tradition and the Initial Variant of the...
Missouri Basin Chronology Program Statements Nos. 1-5 (1964)
This document includes the first five chronology program statements for the Missouri Basin Project. The Program, as it now stands, was developed during the winter of 1958 by the Personnel of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution; the laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska; and the Nebraska State Historical Society; all of Lincoln, Nebraska; and the National Park Service, Region Two Office, in Omaha, Nebraska. Concern for an over-all program of chronology grew out of an...
Quarterly Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, 1967 (1967)
This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1967. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.