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week to learning the routine of the laboratory and Project office and 

 on June 19 left Lincoln in charge of a party to start a series of test 

 excavations in sites in the Oahe Eeservoir area. His activities in that 

 connection have already been discussed. 



Eobert W. IN'euman, field assistant and archeologist, was in charge 

 of an excavating party at the Lovewell Eeservoir in Kansas at the 

 beginning of the fiscal year and worked there until August. After 

 returning to the Lincoln headquarters, he resigned from the Project 

 in order to resume his academic work at the University of Nebraska. 

 During the fall and winter months, however, he continued work on 

 his report of the results of the excavations in the Lovewell area and 

 returned to the Project as a part-time employee in May. On June 10 

 he was appointed temporary archeologist and left Lincoln with a 

 field party on June 12 to begin excavations in a series of sites in the 

 Big Bend area where he was occupied at the end of the fiscal year. 

 Mr. JN'euman participated in the annual meeting of the IN'ebraska 

 Academy of Sciences on April 27, presenting a paper summarizing the 

 results of his studies at the Lovewell Eeservoir. 



G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, during the periods he was at the 

 field headquarters in Lincoln, devoted his time to analyzing the ma- 

 terials obtained from his field investigations and preparing reports 

 on the results of his work. A 75-page manuscript on the findings 

 made at the site of Fort Pierre II during the 1956 field season was 

 completed. Mr. Smith also prepared an illustrated article on "Arche- 

 ological Salvage at Historic Sites in the Missouri Basin," which was 

 published in the Missouri Basin Field Committee Progress Eeport for 

 March. During a 6-week period in February and March, Mr. Smith 

 was detailed to the National Capital Parks, National Park Service, 

 Washington, D. C, in order to make archeological investigations at 

 the oldest known surviving building in the District of Columbia. The 

 structure was built in 1766 and is known as the Old Stone Plouse. Inas- 

 much as it was being restored, it was deemed advisable to make an 

 archeological study of it before too much work was done on it. Mr. 

 Smith found a number of interesting facts about the physical history of 

 the structure and prepared a report on them for the National Capital 

 Parks. At the request of the Minnesota Historical Society, Mr. Smith 

 spent a week in Saint Paul where he assisted in planning future in- 

 vestigations of historic sites in that State and in checking over results 

 of previous undertakings of that nature. Mr. Smith participated in 

 the various scientific meetings held at Lincoln during the year, pre- 

 senting papers pertaining to his work at Fort Pierre II and discussing 

 "The Present Status of Eesearch on Early Historic Sites of the Mis- 

 souri Basin." In April he gave an illustrated talk on "Dakotans before 

 the White Man" at the 18th annual meeting of the South Dakota 

 Social Sciences Association. During May he took part in a meeting of 



