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Harold A. Huscher, temporary archeologist, on the staff at the 

 beginning of the year, was transferred to the Washington office on Jan- 

 uary 27 to carry on the explorations in Alabama-Georgia previously 

 discussed. Between his return from the field on September 16 and 

 his departure for the Southeast, Mr. Huscher wrote a rough draft of 

 a manuscript covering his work in the Missouri Basin in the summers 

 of 1956 and 1957 — "Appraisal of the Archeological KesourceS of the 

 Big Bend Eeservoir, South Dakota." He also prepared the prelimi- 

 nary draft of a brief technical manuscript on earth-lodge village forti- 

 fications in the Missouri Basin, and presented it as an oral report at 

 the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology in Lincoln on November 

 28. He participated in the initial stages of the Missouri Basin 

 Chronology Program. 



William M. Bass III, temporary physical anthropologist, left the 

 staff on August 28. He rejoined the staff in the same capacity on June 

 2 and remained in the Washington office until June 20, when he pro- 

 ceeded to the Lincoln office where he spent five days working on a com- 

 parative human skeleton. He left for the field in the Oahe Keservoir 

 area on June 28. 



William N. Irving, temporary archeologist, was appointed to the 

 permanent staff on May 18. When not in the field directing excava- 

 tions, he was in the Lincoln office analyzing materials he excavated 

 during the preceding summer and investigating the geological possi- 

 bilities of the Medicine Crow site (39BF2). He presented a prelimi- 

 nary report on the archeology of the Medicine Crow site at the 15th 

 Plains Conference for Archeology on November 28, and a report on 

 the chronology of the Medicine Crow site at the annual meeting of the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences on April 19. On May 1 he went to 

 Norman, Okla., and presented a paper on the chronological relation- 

 ships of the early part of the Medicine Crow site at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Society for American Archeology. During the second half 

 of the year he served as geology chairman of the Missouri Basin 

 Chronology Program. 



James J. F. Deetz, temporary archeologist, joined the staff on June 

 2, and on June 10 left Lincoln for South Dakota to excavate a series 

 of sites in the Big Bend Eeservoir area. 



Alan H. Coogan, temporary field assistant, joined the staff on June 

 2, and on June 10 left Lincoln for the field to serve as assistant to Wil- 

 liam N. Irving in the geological- archeological work in the vicinity of 

 Old Fort Thompson in the Big Bend Keservoir area. 



Bernard Golden, temporary archeologist, joined the staff on May 19 

 and on June 10 left Lincoln to begin excavations in an earth-lodge vil- 

 lage site in the Big Bend Eeservoir area. 



Charles H. McNutt, archeologist, when he was not in the field, de- 

 voted most of his time to analyses and the preparation of reports. He 



