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tinued work on the dendrochronological materials from the Big Bend 

 and Oahe Reservoirs of South Dakota. In May he consulted with 

 Dr. Douglas Osborne of the National Park Service regarding com- 

 plete revision and expansion of Ms monograph, "The Archeology of 

 Wakemap; A Stratified Site near the Dalles of the Columbia," for 

 publication in the National Park Service series. He also completed 

 "Dendrochronology and the Missouri Basin Chronology Program," 

 which was published in 2'he Tree Ring Bulletin^ vol. 23, No. 3. In 

 addition, he wrote several book reviews. On July 30 he served as 

 chairman of the 17V2th Plains Conference in Pierre, S. Dak., and 

 over Thanksgiving weekend he gave a report on liis current fieldwork 

 at the 18th Plains Conference in Norman, Okla. On April 14 he pre- 

 sented a paper at the seventy-first annual meeting of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences held in Lincoln, entitled "Some Thoughts on 

 Guns and Indians." During the year he continued to serve as chair- 

 man of the dendrochronology section of the Missouri Basm Chronol- 

 ogy Program; as assistant editor for reviews and literature for the 

 Plains Anthropologist, and as Plains collaborator for the Society for 

 American Archeology publication, Abstracts of New World Archae- 

 ology. On annual leave he continued to serve as part-time assistant 

 professor of anthropology on the faculty of the University of Ne- 

 braska. At the end of the year he was again engaged in excavating 

 archeological sites in the Big Bend Reservoir area. 



Robert W. Neuman, archeologist, when not in the field conducting 

 excavations, was analyzing archeological materials he had previously 

 excavated in the Big Bend Reservoir area. He completed four man- 

 uscripts and had them accepted for publication : "The Olson Mound 

 (39BF223) in Buffalo County, South Dakota"; "Salvage Arche- 

 ology at a Site near Fort Thompson, South Dakota"; "A Bibliog- 

 raphy of Archeological References Relating to the Central and North- 

 ern Great Plains Prior to 1930" ; and "Domesticated Corn from a Fort 

 Walton Mound in Houston County, Alabama." The first three will 

 be published in the Plains Anthropologist ; the fourth in the Florida 

 Anthropologist. An article, "Indian Burial Mounds in the Upper 

 Missouri River Basin," was published in Progress of the Interior 

 Missouri Basin Field Committee. During the year he served as chair- 

 man of the carbon-14 section of the Mssouri Basin Chronology Pro- 

 gram. On Thanksgiving weekend he presented two papers at the 

 18th Plains Conference in Norman, Okla., entitled "Excavations at 

 Four Mound Sites in the Oahe Reservoir" and "The Brother of All 

 Document, 1888." During late April and early May he drove to 

 Washington, D.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., to deliver a load of Missouri 

 Basin archeological specimens and to confer with archeologists at 

 both cities. At the end of the year he was again in the field conduct- 

 ing archeological excavations. 



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