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Section of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in May. He wrote a 

 memorandum on geological deposits and archeological remains in the 

 Tiber Reservoir basin, on the Marias River in northern Montana, for 

 the United States Geological Survey, and "A Note on Fireplaces" for 

 the Plains Archeological Conference Newsletter. Earlier in the year 

 he had prepared an article, "Naming Projectile Point Types," for 

 the same journal. At the close of the year he was occupied with a 

 report on the Nebraska State Historical Society's investigations at 

 the Barn Butte site in western Nebraska and was continuing his work 

 on the development of a correlation table deahng with early remains 

 in the western United States. 



Upon the completion of the excavation project at the Medicine 

 Creek Reservoir, Marvin F. Ejvett, archeologist, returned to Lincoln 

 on September 1 and began the preparation of a brief preliminary 

 report for the use of H. E. Robinson, District Manager of the 

 Bureau of Reclamation. Included in it was a tabulation of work 

 completed at various sites in the Medicine Creek Reservoir basin. 

 After that manuscript was finished Kivett wrote a summary account, 

 "Archeological Investigations in Medicine Creek Reservoir, Nebras- 

 ka," which was printed in American Antiquity, vol. 14, No. 4, April 

 1949. He then turned his attention to completing a laboratory 

 analysis of the more than 30,000 specimens collected at Medicine 

 Creek and to a study of comparable materials gathered in the same 

 area by parties from the Nebraska State Historical Society and placed 

 at his disposal, with the accompanying data, for inclusion in the final 

 technical report. In addition, Mr. Kivett wrote a technical paper on 

 the prehistoric ossuary which he excavated at the Harlan County 

 Reservoir in the fall of 1946, and another "Archeology and Climatic 

 Implications in the Central Plains," which was presented before the 

 Sixth Conference for Plains Archeology. Two brief articles, one con- 

 cerning the use of power equipment in archeological work and the 

 other dealing with pottery nomenclature, were printed in the Plains 

 Archeological Conference Newsletter. 



One trip of 4 days was made by Kivett to the Medicine Creek 

 project during October for the purpose of marking trees from which 

 sections for dendrochronological studies were to be cut under the 

 supervision of the Bureau of Reclamation. In May he made a 1-day 

 trip to the Harlan County and Medicine Creek Reservoirs to point 

 out to members of the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee 

 archeological work completed and that contemplated for those 

 reservoirs. Mr. Kivett resigned from the River Basin Surveys on 

 May 31 to accept an appointment as Assistant Director of the Museum 

 of the Nebraska State Historical Society. 



George Metcalf, field and laboratory assistant, participated in the 



