86 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
“Statement No. 2, The Missouri Basin Chronology Program.” His 
article “The Smithsonian Institution in Arkansas,” prepared late 
last year, was published in the Ozark Mountaineer for July 1958. He 
prepared a book review of “Frontier Steel” by Arthur Rosebush, 
that was published in Nebraska History for March 1959. In July 
he attended and participated in the 1514th Plains Conference, held 
in Pierre, S. Dak. In November he attended the 16th Plains Con- 
ference for Archeology and served as chairman for the half-day 
session on “The Chronology Program” and presented a paper on 
“The Black Partizan Site” at another session. In April he served 
as the general chairman of the annual meeting of the anthropology 
section of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, held in Lincoln, Nebr., 
and presented a paper entitled “Northwest Coast Archeology: An 
Interpretation,’ which was published in abstract in the Proceedings 
of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. During the year he served 
as chairman of the dendrochronology section of the Chronology 
Program and gave a talk to the North Omaha Kiwanis Club on 
“The Missouri Basin Salvage Program.” 
Harold A. Huscher in July participated in the 1514th Plains 
Conference in Pierre, S. Dak., and in November attended the 16th 
Plains Conference for Archeology, where he served as chairman for 
the half-day session on “Field Reports” and presented two papers 
entitled “Mapping in the Fort Bennett Area” and “Chronologies 
from Ceramic Analysis.” His other activities have been reported 
in & preceding section. ; 
William M. Bass, III, temporary physical anthropologist, partici- 
pated in the 1514th Plains Conference in July and after the comple- 
tion of fieldwork, left the staff on September 2. During the spring 
months he devoted much of his own time to detailed metric analyses 
of the human skeletal remains excavated in the Oahe and other 
Missouri Basin reservoirs. On June 17 he returned to Lincoln to 
serve as party chief for the mobile physical anthropology team 
working in the general Missouri Basin area. 
William N. Irving, archeologist, when not in the field directing 
excavations, was in the Lincoln office analyzing materials he exca- 
vated during the previous two summers, particularly in regard to 
the Medicine Crow site (839BF2) and the Aiken site (389BF215). 
In July he attended and participated in the 1514th Plains Con- 
ference at Pierre, S. Dak. On November 27-28 he attended the 16th 
Plains Conference for Archeology and presented two papers, “Pre- 
Ceramic Sites in the Big Bend Reservoir” and “Pre-Ceramic 
Chronology in the Big Bend Reservoir.” In collaboration with Alan 
H. Coogan, he prepared a manuscript on “Late Pleistocene and Re- 
cent Missouri River Terraces in the Big Bend Reservoir, South 
