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Creek Site (39SL9), Oalie Eeservoir," "The Ziltener Site (39SL10), 

 Oahe Eeservoir," "The Kolz Site (39SL40), Oahe Eeservoir," and 

 "The Glasshoff Site (39SL42), Oahe Eeservoir." He also completed 

 the final draft of the report, "The C. B. Smith Site (39SL29), Oahe 

 Eeservoir." All five of these are now ready for publication. In 

 addition, he compeleted the artifact analyses and portions of the 

 manuscripts of reports of work at the "Sully School Site (39SL7), 

 Oahe Eeservoir" and "The Zimmerman Site (39SL41), Oahe Eeser- 

 voir." On his own time during the second semester of the academic 

 year (February to June), he served as part-time assistant professor 

 of anthropology on the faculty of the University of Nebraska and 

 taught a lower- division course, "World Ethnology." On May 27, 

 he resigned from the Eiver Basin Surveys to accept a teaching position 

 at the University of Tennessee. 



William M. Bass III, temporary physical anthropologist, attended 

 and participated in the 16i/2th Plains Conference in Pierre and after 

 completion of his fieldwork resigned on August 28. During the re- 

 mainder of the year he devoted much of his own time to study of the 

 data collected in the field and to statistical analyses of the measure- 

 ments taken on the human skeletal material from the Plains. These 

 data will provide the basis for his doctoral dissertation at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania and also for an extensive handbook on the 

 physical anthropology of the Plains Indians. 



William N. Irving spent the months of July and August in the 

 Lincoln laboratory completing a first draft of a technical report on 

 his excavations at the Medicine Crow site (39BF2) in the Big Bend 

 Eeservoir area. He resigned on September 4 to continue his studies 

 tow,ard a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Alfred W. Bowers, temporary archeologist, attended and 

 participated in the 16%th Plains Conference in Pierre in July. He 

 resigned on August 28 to return to his regular position as professor 

 of anthropology at the University of Idaho. During the course of the 

 year he devoted a portion of his time to analysis of the archeological 

 materials he had excavated during the past three summers at the 

 Anton Eygh site (39CA4) in the Oahe Eeservoir. 



Eobert W. Keuman, archeologist, when not engaged in field 

 activities, turned his attention to analysis and interpretation of arche- 

 ological materials from sites he had previously excavated in the Big 

 Bend Eeservoir area of South Dakota. He completed a manuscript 

 "The Truman Mound Site (39BF224), Big Bend Eeservoir Area, 

 South Dakota" and a brief article on "Eepresentative Porcupine Quill 

 Flatteners from the Central United States," both of which were ac- 

 cepted for publication in American Antiquity. He prepared and 

 published a brief article in the Florida Anthropologist entitled "Two 

 Unrecorded Pottery Vessels from the Purcell Landing Site, Henry 



