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Section of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in May. He wrote a 
memorandum on geological deposits and archeological remains in the 
Tiber Reservoir basin, on the Marias River in northern Montana, for 
the United States Geological Survey, and “A Note on Fireplaces’”’ for 
the Plains Archeological Conference Newsletter. Earlier in the year 
be had prepared an article, “Naming Projectile Point Types,” for 
the same journal. At the close of the year he was occupied with a 
report on the Nebraska State Historical Society’s investigations at 
the Barn Butte site in western Nebraska and was continuing his work 
on the development of a correlation table dealing with early remains 
in the western United States. 
Upon the completion of the excavation project at the Medicine 
Creek Reservoir, Marvin F. Kivett, archeologist, returned to Lincoln 
on September 1 and began the preparation of a brief preliminary 
report for the use of H. E. Robinson, District Manager of the 
Bureau of Reclamation. Included in it was a tabulation of work 
completed at various sites in the Medicine Creek Reservoir basin. 
After that manuscript was finished Kivett wrote a summary account, 
“Archeological Investigations in Medicine Creek Reservoir, Nebras- 
ka,’”’ which was printed in American Antiquity, vol. 14, No. 4, April 
1949. He then turned his attention to completing a laboratory 
analysis of the more than 30,000 specimens collected at Medicine 
Creek and to a study of comparable materials gathered in the same 
area by parties from the Nebraska State Historical Society and placed 
at his disposal, with the accompanying data, for inclusion in the final 
technical report. In addition, Mr. Kivett wrote a technical paper on 
the prehistoric ossuary which he excavated at the Harlan County 
Reservoir in the fall of 1946, and another ‘‘Archeology and Climatic 
Implications in the Central Plains,’ which was presented before the 
Sixth Conference for Plains Archeology. Two brief articles, one con- 
cerning the use of power equipment in archeological work and the 
other dealing with pottery nomenclature, were printed in the Plains 
Archeological Conference Newsletter. 
One trip of 4 days was made by Kivett to the Medicine Creek 
project during October for the purpose of marking trees from which 
sections for dendrochronological studies were to be cut under the 
supervision of the Bureau of Reclamation. In May he made a 1-day 
trip to the Harlan County and Medicine Creek Reservoirs to point 
out to members of the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee 
archeological work completed and that contemplated for those 
reservoirs. Mr. Kivett resigned from the River Basin Surveys on 
May 31 to accept an appointment as Assistant Director of the Museum 
of the Nebraska State Historical Society. 
George Metcalf, field and laboratory assistant, participated in the 
