60 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1951 



aided in the work. The program in the last fiscal year was financed 

 by a transfer of $174,375 to the Smithsonian Institution by the Na- 

 tional Park Service. Those funds were derived in part from the 

 National Park Service and in part from the Bureau of Reclamation. 

 The money from the Bureau of Reclamation was for use in the Mis- 

 souri Basin, while that from the National Park Service was for use in 

 all other areas throughout the United States. Because the appro- 

 priations for the previous year became available so late in the field 

 season, a substantial carry-over ($135,574) increased the 1951 funds 

 so that a much larger series of investigations was possible than would 

 otherwise have been the case. 



Activities during the year consisted of reconnaissance or surveys for 

 the purpose of locating archeological sites or paleontological deposits 

 that will be flooded or otherwise destroyed by construction work and 

 in the excavation of sites located by previous surveys. In all, 45 

 reservoir basins located in 13 States and scattered over 8 river basins 

 were visited by survey parties. In addition one lock project and four 

 canal areas were examined. Excavations were completed or were 

 under way at the end of the fiscal year in 20 reservoir areas in 10 

 States. During the course of the year there were 26 excavating 

 parties in the field. Eight of the excavation projects were in areas 

 where digging was done in previous years, but the remainder were 

 new undertakings. Wlien the fiscal year closed, the total of the res- 

 ervoir areas where surveys had been made or excavations carried on 

 since the beginning of actual field work in July 1946 was 225 located 

 in 25 States. During the course of the work 2,894 archeological sites 

 have been located and recorded, and of that number 545 have been 

 recommended for excavation or additional testing. Preliminary 

 appraisal reports were completed for all the reservoirs surveyed, and 

 14 reports were mimeographed for limited distribution to the co- 

 operating agencies. This makes a total of 134 such reports issued 

 since the start of the program. In some cases a series of reservoirs is 

 included in a single report covering a subbasin, and for that reason 

 the total number of reports is less than that of the reservoirs. The 

 excavations made during the fiscal year brought the total for areas 

 where such work has been done to 33. The results of some of that 

 work have been published as technical reports in various scientific 

 journals, and one Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology con- 

 taining eight such papers is now in press. That Bulletin inaugurates 

 a new series, to be called "River Basin Surveys Papers" and designed 

 as an outlet for the reports resulting from the interagency archeologi- 

 cal salvage program. Paleontological surveys have been made in 

 115 reservoir areas, 70 being those where archeological work has also 

 been done. The remaining 45 in due course will be investigated by 



