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which was excavating an Indian village site as part of the cooperative 

 program of the National Park Service. From the Fort Randall area 

 he proceeded to the Oahe Reservoir area north of Pierre, S. Dak., 

 where he visited two River Basin Surveys excavating parties. From 

 Pierre he proceeded to Cody, Wyo., in company with Dr. Waldo R. 

 Wedel, curator of archeology, United States National Museum, to in- 

 spect an archeological site on Sage Creek where remains of early man 

 had been found. The purpose of that trip was to assist in planning 

 a series of investigations to be carried on there during the field season 

 of 1952 as a cooperative project between the Smithsonian Institution 

 and Princeton University. Returning to Pierre, Dr. Roberts held 

 a number of conferences with staff members to discuss the plans and 

 operations of the salvage program in that area. During the fall and 

 winter months he made several trips to the Missouri Basin headquar- 

 ters at Lincoln. In March he went to Columbus, Ohio, and delivered 

 a lecture on "Early Man in the New World" before the Ohio State 

 Historical Society at the State museum. He returned to Columbus in 

 May to attend the annual meeting of the Society for American Archae- 

 ology and to take part in a symposium dealing with the carbon-14 

 method for dating archeological remains. During the year Dr. 

 Roberts completed two manuscripts: "River Basin Surveys: The 

 First Five Years of the Inter- Agency Archeological and Paleonto- 

 logical Salvage Program" and "The Carbon-14 Method of Age Deter- 

 mination," both of which were published in the 1951 Smithsonian 

 Annual Report. During the year Dr. Roberts received the Viking 

 Fund Medal and Award of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthro- 

 pological Research for his work in American archeology. 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his research on the 

 Eskimo and other Arctic activities. Through arrangements with the 

 National Museum of Canada, his assistant of 1950, William E. Taylor, 

 returned to Cornwallis Island in the Canadian Arctic for further 

 excavations. Mr. Taylor's collections, including Thule and Dorset 

 culture materials, with notes and photographs, were received by Dr. 

 Collins for inclusion in the final report on the Cornwallis Island work. 

 Preliminary reports on the first two seasons' excavations on Cornwallis 

 Island were published in the annual reports of the National Museum of 

 Canada for the fiscal years 1949-50 and 1950-51. A general article, 

 "The Origin and Antiquity of the Eskimo," summarizing the present 

 evidence of archeology, physical anthropology, and linguistics, was 

 published in the 1950 Smithsonian Annual Report. A paper on the 

 present status of the Dorset culture, with special emphasis on new 

 evidence from Greenland and Alaska, which was presented at the 

 December 1951 meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, will be included in a volume on American archeology 



