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"Statement No. 2, The Missouri Basin Chronology Program." His 

 article "The Smithsonian Institution in Arkansas," prepared late 

 last year, was published in the Ozark Mountaineer for July 1958 . He 

 prepared a book review of "Frontier Steel" by Arthur Eosebush, 

 that was published in Nebraska History for March 1959. In July 

 he attended and participated in the 15i^th Plains Conference, held 

 in Pierre, S. Dak. In November he attended the 16th Plains Con- 

 ference for Archeology and served as chairman for the half- day 

 session on "The Chronology Program" and presented a paper on 

 "The Black Partizan Site" at another session. In April he served 

 as the general chairman of the annual meeting of the anthropology 

 section of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, held in Lincoln, Nebr., 

 and presented a paper entitled "Northwest Coast Archeology: An 

 Interpretation," which was published in abstract in the Proceedings 

 of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. During the year he served 

 as chairman of the dendrochronology section of the Chronology 

 Program and gave a talk to the North Omaha Kiwanis Club on 

 "The Missouri Basin Salvage Program." 



Harold A. Huscher in July participated in the 1514th Plains 

 Conference in Pierre, S. Dak., and in November attended the 16th 

 Plains Conference for Archeology, where he served as chairman for 

 the half-day session on "Field Eeports" and presented two papers 

 entitled "Mapping in the Fort Bennett Area" and "Chronologies 

 from Ceramic Analysis." His other activities have been reported 

 in a preceding section. 



William M. Bass, III, temporary physical anthropologist, partici- 

 pated in the 1514th Plains Conference in July and after the comple- 

 tion of fieldwork, left the staff on September 2. During the spring 

 months he devoted much of his own time to detailed metric analyses 

 of the human skeletal remains excavated in the Oahe and other 

 Missouri Basin reservoirs. On June 17 he returTied to Lincoln to 

 serve as party chief for the mobile physical anthropology team 

 working in the general Missouri Basin area. 



William N. Irving, archeologist, when not in the field directing 

 excavations, was in the Lincoln office analyzing materials he exca- 

 vated during the previous two summers, particularly in regard to 

 the Medicine Crow site (39BF2) and the Aiken site (39BF215). 

 In July he attended and participated in the 15i/^th Plains Con- 

 ference at Pierre, S. Dak. On November 27-28 he attended the 16th 

 Plains Conference for Archeology and presented two papers, "Pre- 

 Ceramic Sites in the Big Bend Reservoir" and "Pre-Ceramic 

 Chronology in the Big Bend Reservoir." In collaboration with Alan 

 H. Coogan, he prepared a manuscript on "Late Pleistocene and Re- 

 cent Missouri River Terraces in the Big Bend Reservoir, South 



