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Bulletin 1, March 1964. He attended the Eastern States Archeological 

 Conference during November 9-10 and there presented a report on 

 "The Cool Branch Site (9QU5), Quitman Coimty, Georgia, a Forti- 

 fied Mississippian Town with Tower Bastions." Pie participated in 

 a roundtable discussion of current Early Man problems at the annual 

 meeting of Section H of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, in Cleveland, Ohio, December 26-30. Early in May 

 he attended the annual meeting of the Society for American Arche- 

 ology in Chapel Hill, N. C, and read a paper, "The Standing Boy 

 Flint Industry, an Early Archaic Manifestation on the Chattahoochee 

 River in Alabama and Georgia," which consisted of an interim report 

 on three archeological sites near Columbia, Ala. The latter paper and 

 an ethnographic background paper on aboriginal salt trade, "Salt 

 Traders of Cibola," have been accepted for publication in professional 

 journals. 



At the beginning of the year Mr. Miller was in charge of a field 

 party in southern Virginia. On July 28 this project was brought to a 

 close and he returned to the office in Washington. During the 

 remainder of the year he devoted his time to research on some of his 

 past fieldwork. He completely revised and enlarged his preliminary 

 manuscript on "Prehistoric Occupations of the Ft. Lookout Site (39- 

 LM57), Ft. Randall Reservior, South Dakota." He had two papers 

 accepted for publication in Southern Indian Studies : "A Napier-like 

 Pottery Vessel from Russell Cave" and "Human-headed Adornos 

 from Western Georgia." He had one paper accepted for publication 

 in The Masterhey : "Bone Flutes from Southern Virginia." He at- 

 tended the annual meetings of the Southeastern Archeological Con- 

 ference in Macon, Ga., early in November and presented a paper on 

 "The Appearance of Certain Projectile Points through Time at Russell 

 Cave, Alabama." On December 30 he presented a paper at the annual 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 in Cleveland, Ohio, entitled "Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic Pro- 

 jectile Point Forms from Russell Cave, Northern Alabama." In 

 February he served as judge at two science fairs in Alexandria, Va., 

 where he evaluated 195 public-school science exhibits. He prepared a 

 bibliography on "Hopewell Culture" and one on "The Red Paint 

 People" to answer inquiries from college students. 



On March 21 Mr. Miller presented a paper, "The Archeology of 

 Southern Virginia," at the meeting of the Shenandoah chapter of the 

 Archeological Society of Virginia, in Strasburg, and while there 

 examined several local collections of Indian materials and advised the 

 chapter on their plans for a spring excavation program. During May 

 7-9 he participated in the annual meeting of the Society for American 

 Archeology at Chapel Hill, N.C., and presented a paper on "The 



