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and conclusions. During this period Mr. Hughes also devoted some of 

 his time to an analysis of the archeological materials in the collection 

 of the Nebraska State Historical Society from the Barn Butte site on 

 the North Platte Eiver in Garden County, Nebr., in the preparation of 

 a report on this site; the preparation of a table showing proposed 

 correlations of geological, climatological, and archeological events 

 at several selected sites in the western United States ; and in the prepa- 

 ration of a report on stonework terminology for the Nomenclature 

 Committee of the Conference for Plains Archeology. 



Mr. Hughes left Lincoln on June 1 for the Angostura Eeservoir 

 in South Dakota where, with J.. M. Shippee, field assistant, he began 

 a reconnaissance and intensive survey of the area to be flooded. This 

 work was in progress at the close of the year. 



At the start of the fiscal year, Marvin F. Kivett, archeologist, was 

 in charge of a party engaged in an archeological reconnaissance of 

 the proposed Garrison Keservoir in northwest North Dakota. This 

 reconnaissance included surface survey and limited test excavations in 

 a number of the more important of the 70-odd known sites located in 

 and adjacent to the reservoir. These sites include permanent earth- 

 lodge villages, buried occupational zones, burial locations, and 

 numerous tipi-ring groups. The reconnaissance was terminated at 

 Garrison on August 20, and the party transferred its attention to 

 the Baldhill Eeservoir on the Sheyenne Eiver, where a brief recon- 

 naissance was carried on from August 22 to August 28. This resulted 

 in the location of 10 archeological sites, 7 of which were occupational 

 areas and 3 were mound groups. All the occupational sites yielded 

 some pottery, while one mound tested yielded four disarticulated 

 burials. The party returned to the Eiver Basin Surveys Laboratory 

 in Lincoln on August 29. 



On September 5 Mr. Kivett went to the Medicine Creek Eeservoir, 

 Frontier County, Nebr., to do some test digging at several previously 

 located sites.- Four pit-house floors, located in two village sites at- 

 tributable to a variant of the Upper Eepublican complex, were ex- 

 cavated, and an occupational area located on a low terrace near the 

 mouth of Lime Creek was tested by means of trenches. The latter 

 site presumably is a variant of the Woodland pattern. This work was 

 terminated on November 9 because of inclement weather, and Mr. 

 Kivett returned to Lincoln. 



During the period November 10 to March 27 Mr. Kivett prepared 

 preliminary archeological reports for the Baldhill and Garrison Eeser- 

 voirs in North Dakota, and the proposed Davis Creek Eeservoir in 

 Nebraska. He also worked on a technical paper dealing with a shell- 

 bead ossuary excavated during the fall of 1946 on Prairie Dog Creek, 

 Phillips County, Kans., near the upper limits of the Harlan County 

 Eeservoir. 



