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Washington, D.C, a popular manuscript, "Prehistoric Peoples of 

 Accokeek Creek." Throughout the year he served as chainnan of 

 the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. A photographic booklet, 

 "The Inter- Agency Archaeological Salvage Program after Twelve 

 Years," prepared by him at the end of last fiscal year, was published 

 in September. In July he served as chairman of the 15%th Plains 

 Conference held in Pierre, S. Dak. During the Thanksgiving week- 

 end he attended and participated in the 16th Plains Conference for 

 Archeology, serving as chairman for the half- day session on "Arche- 

 ology of the Southern Plains," and presenting a paper on "The Sully 

 Site" at another session. In January he attended and participated 

 in the annual meeting of the Committee for the Eecovery of Archaeo- 

 logical Remains, held in Washington, D.C. In April he attended 

 the annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, presenting 

 a paper on "Administration in Anthropology" which was published 

 in abstract in the Proceedings of the Nehrasha Academy of Sciences. 

 On April 30 and May 1-2, he attended the annual meeting of the 

 Society for American Archaeology and presented two papers, "River 

 Basin Salvage Problems Today" and "The Missouri Basin Chronology 

 Program," both of which were published in abstract in Abstracts of 

 Papers of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for American 

 Archaeology. During the year he gave eight talks on various 

 aspects of Missouri Basin Salvage Archeology at five local organi- 

 zations' regular meetings. 



Dr. Warren W. Caldwell, archeologist, during the fall and winter 

 months devoted most of his time to analyses of specimen materials 

 recovered from sites he had excavated in the Dardanelle and Big 

 Bend Reservoirs during the previous year. He completed all plates, 

 figures, and manuscript text for the final report, "Archeological In- 

 vestigations in the Dardanelle Reservoir of West-Central Arkansas." 

 He prepared a brief teclmical report on "Firearms and Related 

 Artifacts from Fort Atkinson, Nebraska" and another entitled 

 "Comments on the 'English Pattern' Trade Rifles," both for publica- 

 tion in the Missouri Archaeologist. He prepared a manuscript, pic- 

 tures, and captions for a photographic booklet entitled "Gavins 

 Point Dam and the Lewis and Clark Lake" for publication by the 

 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of the Army; and submitted 

 for publication in the Tree-Ring Joumzil^ an article entitled "Den- 

 drochronology and the Missouri Basin Chronology Program." He 

 prepared a statement on "Plains Archeology and the Salvage Pro- 

 gram" for publication in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook. 

 In addition, he prepared several mimeographed statements for dis- 

 tribution from the Missouri Basin project office, including "Report 

 No. 3, Missouri Basin Project and Cooperating Institutions," and 



