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tributing editor for book reviews for the Plains Anthropologist^ and as 

 collaborator for the Plains area for ''Abstracts of New World Archeol- 

 ogy." He participated in the visiting scientist program of the Ne- 

 braska Academy of Sciences, lecturing to student groups at Gretna, 

 Nebr., on January 8. During the period from September to June, on 

 annual-leave time, he served as part-time assistant professor in the 

 Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska and 

 taught a course on "The American Indian." At the end of the year 

 he was in the Lincoln laboratory analyzing specimens from past field- 

 work. 



Jolin J. Hoffman, archeologist, when not in the field conducting 

 excavations, devoted most of liis time to laboratory analyses and prep- 

 aration of reports resulting from his work of the past season. He 

 completed the analyses of specimen materials and records of his 1962 

 excavations at the Molstad Village site (39DW234) in the Oalie Eeser- 

 voir area and prepared a major draft of a manuscript on this work. 

 He completed a short article on the "Molstad Village and the La 

 Roche Sites" and submitted it to the Plains Anthropologist for publi- 

 cation. By the time he returned to the field in Jime he w^as well along 

 on a manuscript entitled "The Swift Bird Lodge (39DW233)." In 

 July, Hoffman attended the 19l^ Plains Conference in Pierre and 

 reported on his fieldwork during the season. At Thanksgiving, he 

 presented a paper at the 73d annual meetmg of the Nebraska Academy 

 of Sciences in Lincoln entitled "Temporal Ordering of the Chouteau 

 Aspect." The end of the year found him again in the field engaged 

 in archeological excavations. 



Wilfred M. Husted, archeologist, while not in the field conducting 

 archeological excavations, was at work in the laboratory analyzing 

 materials and preparing reports on his activities in the field during 

 the 1962 season and also on materials that others had collected in pre- 

 vious seasons. He wrote a "Preliminary Report of the 1962 Archeo- 

 logical Investigation in the Upper Yellowtail Reservoir," which will 

 be combined with a study of his 1963 season's work in the same area 

 so that there will be a comprehensive monograph on the archeology of 

 that region. He also completed the laboratory analyses of, and pre- 

 pared a major draft of a monograph on "The Brice (39LM31) and 

 Clarkstown (39LM4Y) Sites, Fort Randall Reservoir." These two 

 sites were excavated in 1954 by the late Paul L. Cooper. At the 20th 

 Plains Conference, November 22-24 in Lincoln, he presented a paper 

 entitled "Investigations in Upper Yellowtail Reservoir, Montana- 

 Wyoming." 



Richard E. Jensen, archeologist, spent July, August, and June 

 in the field conducting archeological excavations and the remainder 

 of the year in the laboratory in Lincoln analyzing materials and 



