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and conclusions. During this period Mr. Hughes also devoted some of 
his time to an analysis of the archeological materials in the collection 
of the Nebraska State Historical Society from the Barn Butte site on 
the North Platte River in Garden County, Nebr., in the preparation of 
a report on this site; the preparation of a table showing proposed 
correlations of geological, climatological, and archeological events 
at several selected sites in the western United States; and in the prepa- 
ration of a report on stonework terminology for the Nomenclature 
Committee of the Conference for Plains Archeology. 
Mr. Hughes left Lincoln on June 1 for the Angostura Reservoir 
in South Dakota where, with J. M. Shippee, field assistant, he began 
a reconnaissance and intensive survey of the area to be flooded. This 
work was in progress at the close of the year. 
At the start of the fiscal year, Marvin F. Kivett, archeologist, was 
in charge of a party engaged in an archeological reconnaissance of 
the proposed Garrison Reservoir in northwest North Dakota. This 
reconnaissance included surface survey and limited test excavations in 
a number of the more important of the 70-odd known sites located in 
and adjacent to the reservoir. These sites include permanent earth- 
lodge villages, buried occupational zones, burial locations, and 
numerous tipi-ring groups. The reconnaissance was terminated at 
Garrison on August 20, and the party transferred its attention to 
the Baldhill Reservoir on the Sheyenne River, where a brief recon- 
naissance was carried on from August 22 to August 28. This resulted 
in the location of 10 archeological sites, 7 of which were occupational 
areas and 8 were mound groups. All the occupational sites yielded 
some pottery, while one mound tested yielded four disarticulated 
burials. The party returned to the River Basin Surveys Laboratory 
in Lincoln on August 29. 
On September 5 Mr. Kivett went to the Medicine Creek Reservoir, 
Frontier County, Nebr., to do some test digging at several previously 
located sites. Four pit-house floors, located in two village sites at- 
tributable to a variant of the Upper Republican complex, were ex- 
cavated, and an occupational area located on a low terrace near the 
mouth of Lime Creek was tested by means of trenches. The latter 
site presumably is a variant of the Woodland pattern. This work was 
terminated on November 9 because of inclement weather, and Mr. 
Kivett returned to Lincoln. 
During the period November 10 to March 27 Mr. Kivett prepared 
preliminary archeological reports for the Baldhill and Garrison Reser- 
voirs in North Dakota, and the proposed Davis Creek Reservoir in 
Nebraska. He also worked on a technical paper dealing with a shell- 
bead ossuary excavated during the fall of 1946 on Prairie Dog Creek, 
Phillips County, Kans., near the upper limits of the Harlan County 
Reservoir. 
