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vations at Fort Laramie National Monument,” and ‘Radiocarbon 
Dating in the Missouri Basin Chronology Program.” In April 
he prepared a paper for the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 
entitled “Comments on Two Northern Plains Pottery Wares,” 
published in abstract in the Proceedings of the Academy. 
From April 7 to June 14 he was on leave without pay to complete his 
doctoral dissertation, which was submitted to the University of 
Michigan on June 29. On April 30 and May 1-2, he participated 
in the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, 
held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and presented a paper entitled “Can 
Paraflin Be Removed from Charcoal Samples?” in collaboration with 
Dr. John L. Champe of the University of Nebraska. It was pub- 
lished in abstract in the Abstracts of Papers of the 24th Annual 
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the year 
he also continued work on a manuscript on ceramic taxonomy of 
the South Dakota area and presented two slide talks to local civic 
groups concerning River Basin Salvage Archeology. He also wrote 
an article, “Bibliography of Primary Sources for Radiocarbon Dates,” 
in collaboration with Richard P. Wheeler, which was published in 
American Antiquity, volume 24, No. 38. At the end of the year he was 
preparing to begin fieldwork in the Oahe Reservoir area early in the 
next fiscal year. 
Robert W. Neuman, archeologist, in July participated in the 1514th 
Plains Conference held in Pierre. During the time he was not in 
the field conducting excavations he spent a large portion of his time 
in analyzing materials and preparing reports of excavations con- 
ducted the previous two summers. September 29-October 3 he made 
a trip in company with Harry E. Weakly, who kindly contributed 
his time, to the Big Bend and Oahe Reservoir areas to collect dendro- 
chronological specimens. On November 27-28 he participated in the 
16th Plains Conference for Archeology, presenting a paper on “Arche- 
ological Investigations in the Fort Thompson Area.” From Decem- 
ber 4 to 21 he was on temporary-detached duty with the National 
Park Service to conduct excavations at George Washington Carver 
National Monument. He submitted a final report on that work 
early in January. He prepared a report on “Representative Quill 
Flatteners from the Central United States,’ which was read in 
absentia at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences meeting in Lincoln 
on April 17, and which was published in abstract in the Proceedings 
of the Academy. From February 9 to June 29 he was transferred 
to the River Basin Surveys outside the Missouri Basin for work 
in the Chattahoochee River Basin. His activities there have been 
described in previous pages. At the end of the year he was back 
in the Lincoln office working on a report, nearing completion, on 
