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Creek Site (39SL9), Oahe Keservoir," "The Ziltener Site (39SL10), 

 Oahe Reservoir," "The Nolz Site (39SL40), Oahe Reservoir," and 

 "The Glasshoff Site (39SL42) , Oahe Reservoir." He also completed 

 the final draft of the report, "The C. B. Smith Sit© (39SL29), Oahe 

 Reservoir." All five of these are now ready for publication. In 

 addition, he completed the artifact analyses and portions of the 

 manuscripts of reports of work at the "Sully School Site (39SL7), 

 Oahe Reservoir" and "The Zimmerman Site (39SL41), Oahe Reser- 

 voir." On his own time during the second semester of the academic 

 year (February to June), he served as part-time assistant professor 

 of anthropology on the faculty of the University of Nebraska and 

 taught a lower-division course, "World Etlmology." On May 27, 

 he resigned from the River Basin Surveys to accept a teaching position 

 at the University of Temiessee. 



William M. Bass III, temporary physical anthropologist, attended 

 and participated in the 16i/^th Plains Conference m Pierre and after 

 completion of his fieldwork resigned on August 28. During the re- 

 mainder of the year he devoted much of his own tune to study of the 

 data collected in the field and to statistical analyses of the measure- 

 ments taken on the human skeletal material from the Plains. These 

 data will provide the basis for his doctoral dissertation at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania and also for an extensive handbook on the 

 physical anthropology of the Plains Indians. 



William N. Irving spent the months of July and August in the 

 Lincoln laboratory completing a first draft of a technical report on 

 his excavations at the iledicine Crow site (39BF2) in the Big Bend 

 Reservoir area. He resigned on September 4 to continue his studies 

 toward a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Alfred W. Bowers, temporary archeologist, attended and 

 participated in the IGi^tli Plains Conference in Pierre in July. He 

 resigned on August 28 to return to his regular position as professor 

 of anthropolog}^ at the University of Idaho. During the couree of the 

 year he devoted a portion of his time to analysis of the archeological 

 materials he had excavated during the past three summers at the 

 Anton Rygh site (39CA4) in the Oahe Reservoir. 



Robert W. Neuman, archeologist, when not engaged in field 

 activities, turned his attention to analysis and interpretation of arche- 

 ological materials from sites he had previously excavated in the Big 

 Bend Reservoir area of South Dakota. He completed a manuscript 

 "The Truman Mound Site (39BF224), Big Bend Reservoir Area, 

 South Dakota" and a brief article on "Representative Porcupine Quill 

 Flatteners from the Central United States," both of which were ac- 

 cepted for publication in American Antiquity. He prepared and 

 published a brief article in the Florida Anthropologist entitled "Two 

 Unrecorded Pottery Vessels from the Purcell Landing Site, Henry 



