54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



Preliminary appraisal reports have been issued for most of the 

 reservoir areas which were surveyed. In a few cases no archeological 

 manifestations were noted and no general report was distributed. 

 During the last fiscal year prelimmary appraisal reports for the 

 Oliver Dam, the Walter F. George Dam and Lock project, and the 

 Columbia Dam and Lock project on the Chattahoochee River were 

 nnmeographed and distributed. Since the beginning of the salvage 

 program 188 such reports have been issued. The discrepancy between 

 the number of reservoirs surveyed and that of the repoits issued is due 

 to the fact that in several cases a number of projects located within 

 a single basin or sub-basin were covered in one report. 



By June 30, 1960, 487 sites in 54 reservoir areas located in 19 differ- 

 ent States had been either tested or dug sufficiently to provide good 

 information about them. The sites investigated range in age from 

 those represting hunting and gathering cultures of about 10,000 years 

 ago to early historic Indian village locations and the remains of fron- 

 tier trading and Army posts of European origin. The results ob- 

 tained from some of the excavations have been published in the 

 Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections, in Bulletms of tlie 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, and m various scientific journals 

 and historical publications. During the year River Basin Surveys 

 Papers Nos. 21-24, comprising Bulletin 179 of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Etlmology, were sent to the printer. The papers consist of a 

 report on excavations in the Texarkana Reservoir Basin on the Sul- 

 phur River in east Texas, the Coralville Reservoir area on the Des 

 Moines River in Iowa, and two detailed accounts about Avork in vari- 

 ous sites in the McNary Reservoir area on the Columbia River. The 

 Texarkana report was written by Edward B. Jelks. The Coralville 

 paper was prepared by Warren W. Caldwell and the McNary Reser- 

 voir papers were the work of Joel L. Shiner and Douglas Osborne. 

 The latter two round out and complete the data which were contained 

 in Osborne's River Basin Surveys Paper No. 8, Bulletin 165, "Exca- 

 vations in the McNary Reservoir Basin near Umatilla, Oregon." At 

 the end of the year the editors were working on Carl F. Miller's 

 manuscript which gives in detail the results of his excavations at the 

 John H. Kerr Reservoir basin in the Roanoke River, Virginia-North 

 Carolina. 



On June 30, 1960, the distribution of reservoir projects that had 

 been surveyed for archeological remains was as follows: Alabama, 4; 

 Arkansas, 1; California, 20; Colorado, 24; Georgia, 8; Idaho, 11; 

 Illinois, 2; Iowa, 3; Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 2; Minne- 

 sota, 1 ; Mississippi, 1 ; Montana, 15 ; Nebraska, 28 ; New Mexico, 1 ; 

 North Dakota, 13; Ohio, 2; Oklahoma, 7; Oregon, 27; Pennsylvania, 

 2; South Carolina, 1; South Dakota, 10; Tennessee, 4; Texas, 19; 

 Virginia, 2; Washington, 11; West Virginia, 3; Wyoming, 22. 



