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at the Sully site (39SL4) in the Oahe Reservoir in 1956-57-58. He 

 also continued work on a monograph reporting the "Archeological 

 Investigations in the Whitney Reservoir, Texas," and two smaller 

 manuscripts, all nearing completion at the end of the year. Through- 

 out the year he served as chairman of the Missouri Basin Chronology 

 Program ; as assistant editor of "Notes and News in the Plains Area," 

 for American Antiquity; and as associate editor for the Plains An- 

 thropologist. At the 18th Plains Conference, held in Norman, Okla., 

 on Thanksgiving weekend, he served as chairman of the session on 

 "Field Reports" and as a panel discussant for the session on "The 

 Aksarben Aspect." 



Dr. Stephenson presented a paper, "The Plousing Problem," at the 

 seventy-first annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 

 in Lincoln on April 14. During the year he wrote a number of book 

 reviews for various scientific journals. He also wrote a brief article, 

 "Comments on 'Relationships between the Caddoan Area and the 

 Plains' by Robert E. Bell," for publication in the Bulletin of the Texas 

 Archeological Society. On May 7 he was the guest speaker at the 

 annual meeting of the Iowa Archeological Society, talking on the 

 subject, "Drowning Our Heritage." Throughout the year he gave 

 seven other talks on various aspects of Missouri Basin Salvage 

 Archeology before regular meetings of local civic organizations and 

 school groups. In July he drove to Moscow, Idaho, to deliver a load 

 of archeological specimens from the Missouri Basin to Dr. Alfred 

 Bowers of the University of Idaho and to consult with Dr. Bowers on 

 the analysis of the material. While there he met with the executive 

 dean of the University of Idaho to confer on problems involved in 

 anthropological programs in the University. In May he was invited 

 to Accokeek, Md., as a consultant to the Accokeek Foundation on an 

 archeological research program for the Accokeek area. He took 

 annual leave to serve as part-time assistant professor of anthropology 

 on the faculty of the University of Nebraska during both the first and 

 second semesters of the academic year. At the end of the year he was 

 conducting investigations in prehistoric Indian village sites in the 

 Oahe Reservoir area. 



Dr. Warren W. Caldwell, archeologist, when not in charge of field 

 parties, devoted most of his time to analyses of specimen materials 

 he had recovered from salvage excavations in previous years. He 

 completed final revisions of liis manuscript "Archeological Investi- 

 gations at the Hickey Brothers Site, 39LM4, Lyman County, South 

 Dakota," in collaboration with Lee G. Madison and Bernard Golden ; 

 and of the manuscript "The Garrison Dam and Reservoir," in collab- 

 oration with G. Hubert Smith. He continued the detailed analysis 

 of materials from the Black Partizan site (39LM218) in the Big Bend 

 Reservoir, S. Dak., and in collaboration with Harry E. Weakly con- 



