54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1950 



Washington office. — The main headquarters of the Kiver Basin Sur- 

 veys continued under the direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 

 throughout the year. Joseph R. Caldwell, Carl F. Miller, and Ralph 

 S. Solecki, archeologists, were based at that office, although Mr. 

 Solecki did not work full time for the Surveys. 



Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Miller left Washington on July 7 for Carters- 

 ville, Ga., where they started an excavation program within the area 

 to be flooded by the Allatoona Reservoir. Mr. Miller completed 

 part of the project early in December and returned to Washington, 

 while Mr. Caldwell continued digging until early in February, when 

 he went to Athens, Ga., to establish a field laboratory and study the 

 material obtained during the excavations. Facilities for the labora- 

 tory at Athens were provided by the University of Georgia. During 

 the first week in August Mr. Miller was temporarily detached from 

 the Allatoona investigations and sent to Louisiana to make a prelimi- 

 nary reconnaissance at the Bayou Bodcau Reservoir. Except for a 

 week in May when he visited archeological sites at Chester's Island 

 and Floyd's Island in the Okefenokee Swamp, Mr. Caldwell spent 

 the remainder of the fiscal year at Athens preparing his report, "A 

 Preliminary Report on Excavations in the Allatoona Reservoir," 

 which was published in Early Georgia, vol. 1, No. 1, and a manuscript 

 pertaining to the Rembert Mounds on the Savannah River, which 

 will be published in the first volume of the River Basin Surveys 

 Papers. 



After his return to Washington Mr. Miller devoted most of his time 

 to a study of the material and information he had obtained at the 

 Allatoona Reservoir and in the preparation of his portion of the report 

 on the project. He also served as assistant to the Director, and 

 during such times as the latter was absent from the office took charge 

 of the operations. In June he went to the Buggs Island Reservoir, 

 on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia, to excavate a large village 

 and burial site that was being destroyed by construction within the 

 area. During the year Mr. Miller completed and published five 

 manuscripts on his work in the Southeast. 



Mr. Solecki, who had been transferred to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion's staff the previous May to conduct an archeological reconnais- 

 sance in northern Alaska, returned to duty with the River Basin 

 Surveys on September 11. In November he proceeded to Ohio, 

 where he made a brief reconnaissance of the proposed Deer Creek and 

 Paint Creek Reservoirs in the Scioto Reservoir basin near Chillicothe. 

 During the remainder of the fiscal year he prepared a detailed report 

 on the excavation of the Natrium Mound, 10 miles north of New 

 Martinsville, W. Va., wliich he had dug during the winter of 1948-49. 



California. — In May, Albert Mohr and J. Arthur Freed, field as- 



