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the radiocarbon section of the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. 

 He reported on his current fieldwork at the IQYo Plains Conference in 

 Pierre in July. He attended the 20th Plains Conference in Lincoln, 

 November 22-24, where he served as a panel member in the sym- 

 posium on "Plains Chronology," presenting a discussion of "Carbon- 

 14 on the Plains — Past, Present and Future." In mid-April he and 

 Oscar L. Mallory served as advisers to the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- 

 neers in discussions -vrith local community supporters of a project to 

 reconstruct an earth-lodge village near Mobridge, S. Dak. On April 

 27 he served as chairman of the Anthropology Section of the 73d 

 annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln and 

 presented a paper entitled "A Brief Review of Anthropology in the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences," that was published in abstract in the 

 Proceedings of the meeting. This was the best attended and had the 

 largest selection of outstanding papers of any of the meetings of this 

 section of the Academy since its inception. He also attended the 

 annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology in Boulder, 

 Colo., May 1-3, where he presented a paper entitled "Check Stamping 

 on the Northern Plains," that has been accepted for publication in 

 American Antiquity. At the end of the year Neuman was conducting 

 excavations in the Oahe Reservoir area. 



G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, spent July, August, and the last half 

 of June conducting archeological excavations, and during the re- 

 mainder of the year was in the Lincoln office analyzing and doing 

 research on materials from historic sites in the Missouri Basin that he 

 had excavated in previous years. He completed a report on the field- 

 work done at the site of Fort George (39ST202) in the summer of 1962, 

 and had a major draft of that manuscript ready for final typing at 

 the end of the year. He continued with the preparation of the com- 

 prehensive report on the site of "Like-a-Fishhook Village and Fort 

 Berthold I and II (32:ML2), North Dakota." With Dr. Caldwell he 

 prepared a popular booklet on "The Oahe Reservoir: Archcolog}^, 

 History and Geology," that was published by the U.S. Army Corps 

 of Engineers in their Reservoir Series, of which this is the fifth. He 

 also prepared a book review published in American Antiquity in 

 April. 



Smith attended the IQi/^ Plains Conference in Pierre in July and 

 reported on his current fieldwork. During the Thanksgiving weekend 

 he attended the Plains Conference in Lincoln, where he reported on 

 "Excavations at Fort George, South Dakota." On January 10, he 

 was the featured speaker at the meeting of the Yankton County His- 

 torical Society in Yankton, S. Dak., where he gave an illustrated 

 talk on "Salvage Archeology." On April 27 he attended the 73d 

 annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln and 

 presented a paper entitled "Ethnographic Contributions of Ferdinand 



