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Throughout the year he served as collaborator for the Plains area 

 on Abstracts of New World Archeology and prepared abstracts of 10 

 articles for that publication. In addition, ho served as coiitributing 

 editor for Plains literature and reviews for the Plains Anthropologist, 

 and (on annual leave) as part-time assistant professor of anthropology 

 at the University of Nebraska, as well as continuing his position as 

 chairman of the dendrochronology section of the Missouri Basin 

 Chronology Program. On April 14 he attended the annual meeting 

 of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences where he presented a paper 

 entitled "Tree Ring Investigations in Central South Dakota" and 

 served as a panel discussant in a symposium on "Modern Research 

 Methods in the Field of Etlinohistory." He attended the 27th annual 

 meeting of the Society for American Archeology in Tucson, Ariz., on 

 May 3-5, where he participated in a symposium on "Tree Ring Dat- 

 ing" and also conferred with the staff members of the Laboratory of 

 Tree Ring Research and the Geochronology Laboratoiy at the Uni- 

 versity of Arizona. At tlie end of the year he was again engaged in 

 excavating archeological sites in the Big Bend Reservoir area. 



Wilfred M. Husted, archeologist, joined the staff on April 16 and 

 spent the rest of that month in the Lincoln office leanimg field and 

 laboratory procedures and preparing for the summer's field work. 

 During May 1-11 he was in the field with Brown in the Pony Creek 

 Drainage area in Iowa. On June 13, he again left for the field where, 

 at the end of the year, he was excavating in Yellowtail Reservoir area 

 in Wyoming. 



Robert W. Neuman, archeologist, when not in the field conducting 

 excavations, was at work analyzing archeological materials he had 

 previously excavated in the Big Bend and Oahe Reservoir areas. He 

 completed one monograph entitled "The Good Soldier Site, Lyman 

 County, South Dakota," which will appear as River Basin Surveys 

 Paper No. 37 in Bulletin 189 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 The major portion of his laboratory research time was devoted to an 

 analysis of data and the development of a trait list for burial mounds 

 in the Middle Missouri and northern Plains areas, the compilation of 

 a report on preceramic horizons in the Fort Thompson vicinity, and 

 an article on check-stamped pottery in the northern and central Plains. 

 Throughout the year he served as chairman of the carbon-14 section 

 of the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. Over the Thanksgiving 

 weekend he attended the Plains Conference for Archeology at Lawton, 

 Okla., where he presented a paper on "The 1961 Missouri Basin Proj- 

 ect Field Season" and another on "Historic Indian Burials near Fort 

 Thompson." On April 13 he attended the annual meeting of the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln and presented a paper en- 

 titled "Check Stamped Pottery on the Central and Northern Plains," 

 which was published in abstract in the proceedings of the meeting. 



