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The main office in Washington directed and supervised the work in 

 the east and south, while that in the Missouri Basin was under the 

 supervision of a field headquarters and laboratory at Lincoln, Nebr. 

 The materials collected by survey and excavating parties in the east 

 and south were processed in Washington. Those from the Missouri 

 Basin were handled at the Lincoln laboratory. 



Washington oifice. — ^The main headquarters of the River Basin 

 Surveys continued under the direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, 

 Jr., throughout the year. Carl F. Miller and Ralph S. Solecki, 

 archeologists, were based on that office, although Solecki was trans- 

 ferred to the Missouri Basin Project early in July and continued 

 there until October when he returned to Washington. Late in No- 

 vember he was granted leave of absence to accept a Fulbright Scholar- 

 ship for archeological investigations in Iraq. He was appointed a 

 collaborator of the Smithsonian Institution and from March until 

 the end of June conducted excavations financed jointly by the Iraq 

 Government and the Smithsonian Institution. 



At the start of the fiscal year Mr. Miller was in the office working 

 on material obtained the latter part of the previous year at the John 

 H. Kerr Reservoir (Buggs Island) on the Roanoke River in southern 

 Virginia. During July he spent several days inspecting a site near 

 Cambridge, Md., where a large mound attributable to the Adena 

 culture was being destroyed by a housing development. In August he 

 made a brief survey of the Demopolis Reservoir basin on the Warrior 

 River in Alabama and checked on several sites in the Grenada Reser- 

 voir on the Yalobusha River in Mississippi. In October he took part 

 in the Southeastern Archeological Conference held at Macon, Ga., 

 and in November made all arrangements for the annual meeting of the 

 Eastern States Archeological Federation which met in Washington. 

 During the autumn months he completed his technical report on the 

 excavations that he made at the Fort Lookout Trading Post site in 

 the Fort Randall Reservoir basin in South Dakota while on loan to 

 the Missouri Basin Project the previous year. He also finished cer- 

 tain revisions in the completed technical report on work at the Alla- 

 toona Reservoir on the Etowah River in Georgia. He revised a paper 

 on Indian pottery types of Pissaseck, Va., for publication in the 

 Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Late in December 

 Mr. Miller visited the Bluestone Reservoir on New River near Hinton, 

 W. Va., to ascertain the exact status of the reservoir pool and what the 

 situation was with respect to sites that had been recommended for 

 excavation and testing when a survey was made of the area in 1948. 

 During January and February he studied materials from his exca- 

 vations at the John H. Kerr Reservoir and worked on his technical 

 report for that project. From March 9 to June 6 he conducted exca- 

 vations at four sites in the Jim Woodruff Reservoir area on the Flint 



