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season. In addition, he continued to work with Jensen on the "Grand 

 Detour Phase" manuscript and prepared a monograph, "Archeological 

 Salvage Investigations in the Hells Canyon area, Snake River, Oregon 

 and Idaho," for publication by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 During the year several papers of which Dr. Caldwell was author or 

 co-author were published. These include "Excavations in the Lower 

 Big Bend Reservoir, South Dakota," Plains Anthropologist, vol. 8, 

 No. 20, p. 118 ; "Taxonomy Revisited," Plains Anthropologist, vol. 8, 

 No. 20, pp. 84-85; (with G. Hubert Smith) The Oahe Reservoir: 

 Archeology, Geology, History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, 

 pp. 1-44; (with Lee G. Madison and Bernard Golden) "Archeological 

 Investigations at the Hickey Brothers Site (39LM4), Big Bend Reser- 

 voir, Lyman County, South Dakota," River Basin Surveys Papers 

 No. 36, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 189, pp. 267-290; 

 "Fortified Villages in the Northern Plains," Plains Anthropologist, 

 vol. 9, No. 23, pp. 1-7. 



At the 2014 Plains Conference held at Pierre, S. Dak., on July 20 

 Dr. Caldwell spoke on the problem of the firearms trade and Plains 

 archeology. He also attended the Governors' Conference for the 

 Lewis and Clark Reenactment Pageant at Camp Ashland on Novem- 

 ber 19 and presented a brief statement regarding the potential con- 

 tribution of the Missouri Basin Project to region- wide recreational 

 planning. On September 6 and 7 he participated in the joint Plains- 

 Pecos Conference at Fort Burgwin, near Taos, N. Mex., and spoke 

 on "The LaRoche Problem," He also attended the meetings of the 

 Committee for the Recovery of Archeological Remains, in "Washing- 

 ton, D.C., on February 12 and 13 ; the 74th Meeting of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, May 1 and 2 ; and the annual meeting 

 of the Montana Archeological Society, Havre, May 16 and 17. At 

 the last-named he presented a paper, "The Northwestern Plains and 

 the Missouri River Basin," and participated in a panel discussion of 

 Plains archeological problems. He continued to serve as dendro- 

 chronology chairman of the Missouri Basin Chronology Program 

 and, until December, as contributing editor for reviews for the Plains 

 Anthropologist. As of that time he replaced Dr. Stephenson as 

 editor of the journal and continued in that capacity through the year. 

 Dr. Caldwell participated in the Visiting Scientist Program of the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences, speaking before student groups at 

 Utica, Nebr., on January 8. In addition, he presented talks or lec- 

 tures to eight civic and university groups. In October he was named 

 as one of the organizers for the Plains Field Conference preceding 

 the 1965 INQUA meeting at Boulder, Colo. During the period of 

 September to June he continued to serve, on annual leave, as part- 

 time assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Ne- 



