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River in southern Georgia, and gave a number of talks on the River 

 Basin Surveys program before local groups both in Georgia and 

 northern Florida. 



Dr. Theodore E. "White, geologist, divided his time between the 

 Washington office and the Missouri Basin. From November 12, 1952, 

 to March 30, 1953, he was in Washington, cleaning, cataloging, and 

 identifying the small mammals he had collected during the field sea- 

 son. In addition he identified three lots of bone from archeological 

 sites in the Columbia Basin and one lot from a site excavated by a 

 cooperating agency in the Missouri Basin. He completed a series of 

 five papers on "Observations on the Butchering Technique of Some 

 Aboriginal People" and was a joint author, with C. M. Barber, of a 

 sixth. All have been submitted for publication in American An- 

 tiquity. He also finished a manuscript, "Endocrine Glands and Evo- 

 lution, No. 3," for the journal Evolution. Two other papers, "Lith- 

 ology. Distribution and Correlation of the Alachua Formation of 

 Florida" and "Lithology, Distribution and Correlation of the Bone 

 Valley Formation of Florida," were submitted to the Committee on the 

 Nomenclature and Correlation of North American Continential Ter- 

 tiary. Three papers by Dr. White were published during the year. 

 They were: "A Method of Calculating the Dietary Percentage of 

 Various Food Animals Utilized by Aboriginal Peoples," American 

 Antiquity, vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 396-98 ; "Collecting Osteological Mate- 

 rial," Plains Archeological Conference News Letter, vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 

 3-7; and "Studying Osteological Material," ibid., pp. 8-15. 



AldbaTna. — An archeological reconnaissance of the Demopolis 

 Reservoir basin on the Warrior River made August 5-7, 1952, showed 

 that although archeological remains are present in the area they 

 would be little affected by flooding in the bottomlands. No excava- 

 tions were recommended for the project. 



Georgia. — During the period from March 9 to June 6, 1953, surveys 

 and excavations were carried on along the Flint River, in southern 

 Georgia, in a portion of the area that will be flooded by the Jim Wood- 

 ruff Dam situated in the Apalachicola River, just below the junction 

 of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, in northern Florida. Carl 

 F. Miller completely excavated 2 sites, partially excavated 2 others, 

 and located 25 sites not previously listed by the University of Georgia 

 when it made the preliminary survey there. One of the excavated 

 sites, Montgomery Fields (9DrlO) , was basically Weeden Island in its 

 relationships but contained a number of traits not previously reported 

 for that culture. The floor pattern of a fairly large rectangular struc- 

 ture that had been formed by individual post-s, each set in its own hole, 

 was uncovered, and outlines of a number of small circular structures 

 suggesting the same type of construction were found. The large 

 feature probably was a dwelling, while the smaller ones were either 



