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vations at Fort Laramie National Monument," and "Kadiocarbon 

 Dating in the Missouri Basin Chronology Program." In April 

 he prepared a paper for the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 

 entitled "Comments on Two Northern Plains Pottery Wares," 

 published in abstract in the Proceedings of the Academy. 

 From April 7 to June 14 he was on leave without pay to complete his 

 doctoral dissertation, which was submitted to the University of 

 Michigan on June 29. On April 30 and May 1-2, he participated 

 in the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, 

 held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and presented a paper entitled "Can 

 Paraffin Be Eemoved from Charcoal Samples?" in collaboration with 

 Dr. John L. Champe of the University of Nebraska. It was pub- 

 lished in abstract in the Abstracts of Papers of the 24th Annual 

 Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the year 

 he also continued work on a manuscript on ceramic taxonomy of 

 the South Dakota area and presented two slide talks to local civic 

 groups concerning Eiver Basin Salvage Archeology. He also wrote 

 an article, "Bibliography of Primary Sources for Kadiocarbon Dates," 

 in collaboration with Kichard P. Wheeler, which was published in 

 American Antiquity^ volume 24, No. 3. At the end of the year he was 

 preparing to begin fieldwork in the Oahe Eeservoir area early in the 

 next fiscal year. 



Kobert W. Neuman, archeologist, in July participated in the 15%th 

 Plains Conference held in Pierre. During the time he was not in 

 the field conducting excavations he spent a large portion of his time 

 in analyzing materials and preparing reports of excavations con- 

 ducted the previous two summers. September 29-October 3 he made 

 a trip in company with Harry E. Weakly, who kindly contributed 

 his time, to the Big Bend and Oahe Reservoir areas to collect dendro- 

 chronological specimens. On November 27-28 he participated in the 

 16th Plains Conference for Archeology, presenting a paper on "Arche- 

 ological Investigations in the Fort Thompson Area." From Decem- 

 ber 4 to 21 he was on temporary-detached duty with the National 

 Park Service to conduct excavations at George Washington Carver 

 National Monument. He submitted a final report on that work 

 early in January. He prepared a report on "Eepresentative Quill 

 Flatteners from the Central United States," which was read in 

 absentia at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences meeting in Lincoln 

 on April 17, and Avhich was published in abstract in the Proceedings 

 of the Academy. From February 9 to June 29 he was transferred 

 to the Eiver Basin Surveys outside the Missouri Basin for work 

 in the Chattahoochee Eiver Basin. His activities there have been 

 described in previous pages. At the end of the year he was back 

 in the Lincoln office working on a report, nearing completion, on 



