Archeological Progress Report No. 7, Field Season of 1962

Author(s): Smithsonian Institute, Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, NE

Year: 1962

Summary

This is a brief summary of field work and a preliminary statement of results for the seventeenth consecutive summer field season of the Missouri Basin Project. In the past this progress report has elicited many constructive comments. We hope that it will continue to do so - but there is also an additional purpose. As the result of a number of circumstances, excavation has far out-shipped the publication of results. Of course, such a lag is often inevitable, however as a stop-gap, this summary is intended to keep interested persons abreast of current work and to provide at least a minimum of description and analysis. In sharp contrast to the past several years, appropriated funds, available for field work within the Missouri Basin, were significantly increased. In addition the National Science Foundation provided substantial support for a continuation of research begun in 1961. These funds provided for labor and field expenses of three field parties. Salary of the party chief, cost of Laboratory facilities, tools and other necessary materials were borne by regularly appropriated funds. The construction programs of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation and other federal agencies are moving ahead rapidly so that, despite a substantial increase in funds, the Smithsonian Institution and cooperating agencies have been hard pressed to meet their salvage obligations. Not only is there much work remaining to be done in the reservoirs of the Missouri mainstream, but an increasing number of projects on tributary streams are demanding attention. Nor is this the only concern. The much needed increase in appropriated funds has not solved all of our problems. On the contrary, it has brought new concerns, not the least of which is the problem of personnel. Competent archeologists are at a premium so that Missouri Basin personnel has been thinly spread. In some cases it has been necessary for the archeologists to direct two field parties concurrently. This has proven to be relatively efficient, assuming first-rate assistants, but many adjustments must be made.

Cite this Record

Archeological Progress Report No. 7, Field Season of 1962. Smithsonian Institute, Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, NE. Lincoln, Nebraska: Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Surveys. 1962 ( tDAR id: 391104) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8RJ4KD1

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Keywords

Culture
Adobe Brick Fireplaces • Aksarben Aspect • Anderson Phase • Archaic • Campbell Creek Aspect • Chouteau Aspect • Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Household Furnishings • Historic Native American • Historic Personal Articles • Iona • La Roche • Middle Missouri Tradition • Talking Crow Phase • Woodland

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Shell

Site Name
13ML205 • 13ML206 • 13ML216 • 14MH2 • 24BH211 • 24BH212 • 24BH215 • 24CB201 • 24CB202 • 24CB203 • 25CU202 • 39CD34 • 39CO19 • 39CU14 • 39DW233 • 39DW234 • 39DW240 • 39DW242 • 39HU48 • 39LM2 • 39LM208 • 39LM209 • 39LM223 • 39LM225 • 39LM226 • 39LM228 • 39LM249 • 39LM250 • 39PO1 • 39PO207 • 39SL4 • 39SL45 • 48BH206 • 48BH210 • 48BH211 • Black Dog Site • Bleached Bone Site • Davis Site • Fort George Site • Fort Sully • Gilman Site • Grover Hand Mounds • Jandreau Site • Jiggs Thompson Site • Langdeau Site • Medicine Creek Site • Molstad Site • Pishney Site • Potts Village • Red Horse Hawk Site • Second Hand Site • Steamboat Creek Site • Stelzer Site • Sully Site • Swift Bird Mounds Show More

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • House • Midden • Non-Domestic Structures • Palisade • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Settlements • Tent Ring / Tipi Ring

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview

General
Anderson Ware • Catlinite Pipes • Chouteau Ceramics • Foreman Ware • King Post • Monroe Ware • Thomas Riggs Ceramics • Trading Post

Geographic Keywords
Arcadia Reservoir, Nebraska • Iowa • Kansas • Missouri Breaks Area • Montana • Nebraska • Oahe Reservoir • Pony Creek Watershed • Salt-Wahoo Drainage Basin • South Dakota • Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Kansas • Wyoming • Yellowtail Reservoir

Spatial Coverage

min long: -114.258; min lat: 36.386 ; max long: -90.176; max lat: 48.865 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): national Science Foundation; Warren W. Caldwell; G. Hubert Smith; Robert W. Neuman; Lionel A. Brown; Wilfred M. Husted; Carl Miller

Project Director(s): Robert L. Stephenson

Prepared By(s): Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project

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