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deposits in the area. During the course of this work, Dr. White was 

 assisted by Prentiss Shepherd, Jr., a student at Harvard University, 

 and William C. Harrup, Jr., a student at Columbia University. 



Ohio. — Field work in Ohio was restricted to brief visits to the 

 proposed Deer Creek and Paint Creek Reservoirs on two tributaries 

 of the Scioto River, near Chillicothe. Mr. Solecki, of the River 

 Basin Surveys, went to Ohio in November and, in company with 

 Clyde B. King, superintendent of Mound City National Monument, 

 and Raymond Baby, archeologist of the Ohio State Archeological 

 and Historical Society, Columbus, determined that no sites of archeo- 

 logical significance would be inundated by the proposed reservoirs. 

 During the course of the reconnaissance, Mr. Solecki examined three 

 features on Deer Creek and two nearby on Spruce Hill, which were 

 purported to be Norse iron furnaces, but was unable to find anything 

 that could be construed as conclusive proof that the remains repre- 

 sented ancient iron furnaces. The opinion was that the features 

 probably had been lime kilns dating from the early Colonial period 

 in the area. 



Texas. — The River Basin Surveys in Texas continued to operate 

 from the base and headquarters furnished by the Department of 

 Anthropology of the University of Texas at Austin. Surveys were 

 begun and completed at the Belton Reservoir on the Leon River, at 

 the Canyon Reservoir on the Guadalupe River, and at the Texarkana 

 Reservou' on the Sulphur River, near the town of Texarkana. The 

 work at the Belton Reservoir resulted in the location of 43 archeo- 

 logical sites. Five of them were found to lie outside the reservoir 

 area. Twelve of the remaining are rock- shelter sites, 12 are open 

 occupational areas, and 4 are a combination of the two forms. The 

 remainder consist either of burned rock middens or deeply buried 

 middens. Testing was done in five sites, and a number of interesting 

 artifacts were recovered. However, it was discovered that during 

 the course of the years most of the sites in the area had been looted 

 by commercial collectors and so little remains that further investi- 

 gations are not warranted. Such evidence as was found during the 

 reconnaissance and testing indicated that the Belton district probably 

 was occupied by people of the Round Rock focus over a period of 

 many centuries. 



At the Canyon Reservoir, 20 archeological sites were located and 

 recorded. Five of them are large open sites, 3 are small rock shel- 

 ters, 1 is a deeply buried occupation level, 1 is a subterranean cavern, 

 and the remaining 10 are small open sites containing a single burned 

 rock midden in each. The area is one from which only meager archeo- 

 logical information is available and for that reason 8 of the sites have 

 been recommended for excavation and complete analysis. 



