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. G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, after completing liis fieldwork in 

 August, was on duty the remainder of the year in the Lincoln office 

 analyzing materials and preparing reports of work previously ac- 

 complished at historic sites in the Missouri Basin. His principal 

 effort was directed toward preparation of a large monograph com- 

 bining his own and several other investigators' work at the site of 

 Fort Berthold and Like-a-Fishhook Village (32ML2) in the Garrison 

 Reservoir, and by the end of the year he was well along on this manu- 

 script. He also prepared an article, "Historical Archeology in the 

 Missouri Basin Reservoir Areas," that was published in the Plains 

 Anthropologist in November, and wrote (in collaboration with War- 

 ren W. Caldwell) a manuscript, "The Garrison Dam and Reservoir," 

 for publication by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Throughout 

 the year he served as assistant editor for historic sites archeology for 

 the Plains Anthropologist and as chairman of the historic documenta- 

 tion section of the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. He partici- 

 pated in the 18th Plains Conference, held in Norman, Okla., over 

 Thanksgiving weekend with a report of his current field activities. 

 On September 23-24 he participated as a discussant at the "Confer- 

 ence on Historic Buildings and Sites" at Iowa State University at 

 Ames. On January 26-28, at the annual meeting of the Society of 

 Architectural Historians, in Minneapolis, Minn., he presented an illus- 

 trated paper on "Frontier Buildings on the Upper Missouri," and on 

 May 20 a similar paper, "Early Historic Buildings in the Missouri 

 Basin," at the annual meeting of the Nebraska Association of Archi- 

 tects, held in Lincoln. On April 14 he spoke at the seventy-first 

 annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln on 

 "Early Historic Sites and Buildings on the Upper Missouri: Some 

 Problems of Evidence." At the close of the year he was at work in 

 the Lincoln office on his monograph on site 32]\Hj2. 



Table 1. — Specimens processed July 1, 1960 — June SO, 1961 



