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Washington, D.C., a popular manuscript, “Prehistoric Peoples of 
Accokeek Creek.” Throughout the year he served as chairman of 
the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. A photographic booklet, 
“The Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program after Twelve 
Years,” prepared by him at the end of last fiscal year, was published 
in September. In July he served as chairman of the 1514th Plains 
Conference held in Pierre, S. Dak. During the Thanksgiving week- 
end he attended and participated in the 16th Plains Conference for 
Archeology, serving as chairman for the half-day session on “Arche- 
ology of the Southern Plains,” and presenting a paper on “The Sully 
Site” at another session. In January he attended and participated 
in the annual meeting of the Committee for the Recovery of Archaeo- 
logical Remains, held in Washington, D.C. In April he attended 
the annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, presenting 
a paper on “Administration in Anthropology” which was published 
in abstract in the Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. 
On April 30 and May 1-2, he attended the annual meeting of the 
Society for American Archaeology and presented two papers, “River 
Basin Salvage Problems Today” and “The Missouri Basin Chronology 
Program,” both of which were published in abstract in Abstracts of 
Papers of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for American 
Archaeology. During the year he gave eight talks on various 
aspects of Missouri Basin Salvage Archeology at five local organi- 
zations’ regular meetings. 
Dr. Warren W. Caldwell, archeologist, during the fall and winter 
months devoted most of his time to analyses of specimen materials 
recovered from sites he had excavated in the Dardanelle and Big 
Bend Reservoirs during the previous year. He completed all plates, 
figures, and manuscript text for the final report, “Archeological In- 
vestigations in the Dardanelle Reservoir of West-Central Arkansas.” 
He prepared a brief technical report on “Firearms and Related 
Artifacts from Fort Atkinson, Nebraska” and another entitled 
“Comments on the ‘English Pattern’ Trade Rifles,” both for publica- 
tion in the Afissourt Archaeologist. He prepared a manuscript, pic- 
tures, and captions for a photographic booklet entitled “Gavins 
Point Dam and the Lewis and Clark Lake” for publication by the 
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of the Army; and submitted 
for publication in the 7’ree-Ring Journal, an article entitled “Den- 
drochronology and the Missouri Basin Chronology Program.” He 
prepared a statement on “Plains Archeology and the Salvage Pro- 
gram” for publication in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook. 
In addition, he prepared several mimeographed statements for dis- 
tribution from the Missouri Basin project office, including “Report 
No. 3, Missouri Basin Project and Cooperating Institutions,” and 
