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excavations in a series of mound sites in the Big Bend Keservoir 

 area. 



G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, at the beginning of the fiscal year 

 was on temporary-detached duty with the National Park Service, 

 conducting excavations at Fort McHenry National Monument, in 

 Baltimore, Md. He submitted a report on his findings in September. 

 On October 1 he returned to duty with the Missouri Basin project 

 and spent the period from then until February 9 compiling a com- 

 prehensive report on several seasons' work at Site 32ML2, Forts 

 Berthold I and II, and Like-a-Fishhook Village. This report will 

 combine the findings of five archeologists during four seasons of 

 work at this site in the Garrison Reservoir of North Dakota. In addi- 

 tion there will be an ethnohistoric account of the site. In February 

 he was transferred to the Chattahoochee Basin project where he 

 remained until June 17, when he again returned to the Missouri Basin 

 project. In November he attended the annual meetings of the Ameri- 

 can Indian Ethnohistorical Conference and the American Anthropo- 

 logical Association, held in Washington, D.C. At a symposium of 

 the latter group he contributed a paper on "Interpretive Values of 

 Archeological Evidence in Historical Research." During the year 

 he had a previously written article entitled "Great Carrying Place" 

 published in the Naturalist^ a quarterly publication of the Natural 

 History Society of Minnesota. He prepared reviews of "The Indians 

 of Quetico," by Emerson S. Coatsworth, for publication in the fall 

 1958 issue of Ethnohistory^ and of "New Light on Old Fort Snel- 

 ling," by John M. Callender, for publication in a future issue of 

 Nebraska History. He also prepared a brief article describing 

 the work at Fort McHenry and submitted it for publication in the 

 Maryland Historical Magazine. At the end of the year he was again 

 at work on the comprehensive report on Site 39ML2, Forts Berthold 

 I and II, and Like-a-Fishhook Village. 



Richard P. Wheeler, archeologist, when he was not in the field, 

 devoted his time to analyses of materials and preparation of reports 

 on sites excavated by him in past years. He completed the final draft 

 of his manuscript, "The Stutsman Focus: An Aboriginal Culture 

 Complex in the Jamestown Reservoir Area, North Dakota." He 

 also completed the major portion of a draft of a manuscript entitled 

 "Mounds and Earthworks in the Jamestown Reservoir Area of North 

 Dakota" and of another entitled "Three Stratified Occupation Sites 

 in the Oahe Dam and Reservoir Area, South Dakota." In July he 

 participated in the 15%th Plains Conference held in Pierre, and in 

 November attended the 16th Plains Conference for Archeology, held 

 in Lincoln, presenting papers on "Investigations near Old Fort Ben- 

 nett, Oahe Reservoir" and "Dendrochronology in the Central North- 



