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during the year, include "Temporal Ordering and the Chouteau 

 Aspect," Plains Anthropologist^ vol. 8, No. 20, pp. 91-97; "Prehistoric 

 Houses Along the Middle Missouri Kiver," Progress^ Oct.-Dec, 1963, 

 Missouri Basin Field Committee^ Billings, pp. 43-57 ; "Investigation 

 of the Swift Bird House (39DW233) in the Oahe Eeservoir, South 

 Dakota," Plains Anthropologist^ vol. 8, No. 22, pp. 249-266 ; a field 

 report, "Excavations at Molstad Village m the Oahe Eeservoir," 

 Plains Anthropologist^ vol. 8, No. 20, pp. 118-119 ; and two short book 

 reviews also published in the Plains Anthropologist. 



Mr. Hoffman served as chairman of the 20% Plains Conference at 

 Pierre on July 20, which he reported briefly in the Plains Anthro- 

 pologist^ vol. 8, No. 22, p. 262. He also participated in the joint 

 Plains-Pecos meeting at Taos, N. Mex., September 6-7, where he pre- 

 sented a paper entitled, "La Roche : Some New Data," and attended 

 the annual meeting of the Montana Archeological Society at Havre, 

 May 16 and 17. He also spoke before several school and civic groups 

 in Nebraska and Iowa. At the end of the year Mr. Hoffman was 

 again in the field engaged in archeological excavations in the Big 

 Bend Reservoir of South Dakota. 



Wilfred M. Husted, archeologist, when not in the field, prepared re- 

 ports, based upon materials excavated during his 1963 field investi- 

 gations, and continued to work on the backlog of site collections from 

 the Missouri Basin Project files. A manuscript report entitled 

 "Archeological Test Excavations at Fort Laramie National Historic 

 Site, Wyoming, 1963" was completed and accepted by the U.S. Na- 

 tional Park Service, Midwest Region. A final draft of "The Bice 

 Site (39LM31) and the Clarkstown Site (39LM47) : Salvage Excava- 

 tions in the Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota" was completed, 

 and major drafts of three as yet untitled reports dealing with sites in 

 the Big Bend and Fort Randall Reservoirs are substantially finished. 

 Mr. Husted submitted two papers, "Early Occupation of the Colorado 

 Front Range" and "Pueblo Pottery from Northern Colorado," for 

 publication, and two short reports, "Investigations in the Upper Yel- 

 lowtail Reservoir, Montana and Wyoming" and "A Rock Alignment 

 in the Colorado Front Range," were published in the Plains Anthro- 

 pologist (vol. 8, No. 20, p. 119, and vol. 8, No. 22, pp. 221-224, respec- 

 tively) . At the end of the year he was in the field excavating sites in 

 the Yellowtail Reservoir of Wyoming and Montana. 



Richard E. Jensen, archeologist, when not in the field, worked 

 primarily on the analysis and reporting of site collections excavated by 

 staff members in previous years, but following the death of Dean E. 

 Clark, laboratory supervisor, he assumed direction of the processing 

 and cataloging staff in addition to his regular duties. He cooperated 

 with Dr. Caldwell in the preparation of a major study entitled, "The 



