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to the archeological sites in their basins. En route from Tennessee 

 to Washington Mr. Miller stopped in Georgia and picked up materials 

 collected during the course of investigations at the Allatoona Reser- 

 voir and brought them to the National Museum. At the end of June 

 Mr. Miller was malring preparations to proceed to Montana to conduct 

 excavations in the Tiber Reservoir area on the Marias River. 



OoIum,hia Basin and Texas. — The River Basin Surveys did no field- 

 work in these areas during the fiscal year, but two technical reports 

 on previous investigations were completed and submitted for pub- 

 lication. Joel L. Shiner, formerly in charge of the River Basin 

 Surveys field headquarters at Eugene, Oreg., and now an archeologist 

 with the National Park Service, turned in a manuscript, "The Mc- 

 Nary Reservoir, a Study in Plateau Archeology," based on the results 

 of excavations at nine sites. Edward B. Jelks, who was in charge of 

 the field headquarters at Austin, Tex., before it was transferred to the 

 National Park Service and who is still an archeologist with that or- 

 ganization, completed a report, "Excavations at Texarkana Reservoir, 

 Sulphur River, Texas,*' detailing the results of the digging at three 

 sites. As his duties at the Lincoln, Nebr., office permitted, Robert L. 

 Stephenson continued work on his "Archeological Investigations in 

 the Whitney Reservoir Area, Hill County, Texas." Mr. Stephenson 

 made the excavations on which it is based before transferring to the 

 Missouri Basin. 



Missouri i^o^in.— Throughout fiscal 1955 the Missouri Basin Project 

 continued to operate from the field headquarters at Lincoln, Nebr, 

 Robert L. Stephenson served as chief of the project from July 1 to 

 September 3, when he was granted leave of absence to complete aca- 

 demic work on an advanced degree at the Department of Anthro- 

 pology, University of Michigan. After Mr. Stephenson's departure, 

 G. Hubert Smith took over direction of the project as archeologist in 

 charge. Activities during the year were concerned mainly with ex- 

 cavations, the processing of the collections obtained from the digging, 

 analyses and study of the materials, the preparation of general and 

 technical manuscripts on the results, and the publication and dissemi- 

 nation of scientific and popular reports. At the beginning of the 

 fiscal year the Missouri Basin Project had a permanent staff of twelve 

 persons. There were two temporary part-time employees assisting in 

 the laboratory. During July, August, and part of September, 1 tem- 

 porary assistant archeologist and 24 temporary student and local non- 

 student laborers were employed in the field. During the field season 

 three of the regular staff were engaged in excavation activities. The 

 temporary employees were gradually laid off as the excavations and 

 test digging were brought to a close and by the first of October only the 

 ]:)ermanent staff, a temporary assistant archeologist, and a part-time 



