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Kecovery of Archeological Remains" held in Washington, D.C., on 

 February 8-9 and reported on the Missouri Basin Project activities 

 of the past 2 years and the prospects for the coming year. He at- 

 tended tlie annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in 

 Lincoln on April 13. During the period April 15-22 he was in Austin, 

 Tex., serving as technical adviser and making studio sequences for a 

 motion picture on salvage archeology in the Plains area. From April 

 28 to May 8 he attended the Society for American Archeology annual 

 meeting at Tucson, Ariz., where he presented a paper on "Administra- 

 tive Problems of the River Basin Surveys." While in Tucson he con- 

 ferred with the staff of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and of 

 the Geochronology Laboratory of the University of Arizona. During 

 the year he wrote several book reviews for scientific journals and gave 

 talks to various local civic organizations. Among the latter was the 

 Omaha, Nebr., Kiwanis Club meeting to honor Dr. Ahmed Fakhry 

 and the Tutankhamun exhibit at Joslyn Art Museum on May 9, and 

 the meeting of the planning committee for the Heartland Exhibit at 

 the New York World's Fair in 1964:-65, held in Omaha on May 17. 

 From June 17 to 24 he visited the field parties in Montana and at the 

 end of the year was back in the Lincoln office. 



Lionel A. Brown, archeologist, joined the staff on April 2 and spent 

 the ensuing month in the Lincoln office learning field and laboratory 

 procedures and preparing for the summer's field work. He was in the 

 field from May 1 to 25 conducting surveys and excavations in the 

 Pony Creek Drainage area of southwestern Iowa. On Jmie 13 he 

 again left for the field, where at the end of the year he was excavating 

 in the Yellowtail Reservoir in Montana. 



Dr. Warren W. Caldwell, archeologist, when not in charge of field 

 parties, devoted most of his time to analyses of specimen materials he 

 had recovered from salvage excavations in previous years. He com- 

 pleted two drafts of a monograph entitled "Archeological Investiga- 

 tions at the Black Partizan site (39LM218), Big Bend Reservoir, 

 South Dakota," and that is now ready for final revision. He con- 

 tinued sporadic work on the revision of his manuscript "The Archeol- 

 ogy of Wakemap," wrote several reviews for various scientific journals, 

 and had the following three technical articles and one monograph 

 published: "Archeological Excavations at the Coralville Reservoir, 

 Iowa," published in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 179, 

 River Basin Surveys Paper No. 22, 1961 ; "Tree Ring Investigations 

 in Central South Dakota," published in abstract in the Proceedings of 

 the 72d Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 1962; "Tree 

 Ring Dating and the Village Cultures of South Dakota," published 

 in Progress of the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee, 1962 ; and 

 "The Missouri Basin Chronology Progi-am, Statement No. 3," pub- 

 lished by offset in the Missouri Basin Project office, 1962. 



