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cola. Dr. Mark F. Boyd, of the Florida Historical Society, through 

 an agreement between the National Park Service and the Society, 

 made a historic-site survey of the whole reservoir basin, working in 

 conjunction with Miller and Caldwell in a number of instances. Dr. 

 Arthur Kelly, of the University of Georgia, cooperated in all the 

 recent activities, giving Caldwell and Miller the benefit of the knowl- 

 edge he obtained while making a general survey of the Jim Woodruff 

 area in previous years. He also helped Dr. Boyd with his historic- 

 sites investigations. 



During June excavations were carried on by Ripley P. Bullen in 

 the small portion of the Jim Woodruff Reservoir lying in Florida, 

 under a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and 

 the Florida State Museum of the University of Florida. Mr. Bullen 

 and his party dug one site near the dam, finding four superimposed 

 occupation levels separated by sterile zones. The bottom level yielded 

 quantities of lithic materials and definitely represented a preceramic 

 culture. The next higher cultural layer contained sherds from fiber- 

 tempered pottery, fragments from steatite vessels, and numerous stone 

 artifacts. The latter, Mr. Bullen reported, constitute many times the 

 number of previously documented worked-stone specimens from the 

 fiber-tempered period in all Florida. The third occupation level was 

 found to belong to the Deptford cultural horizon. The upper layer 

 contained village remains of the Fort Walton period. Associated with 

 that occupation were four "specialized" pits containing charred ker- 

 nels of corn. The evidence from the site will be extremely important 

 to Florida archeology because it is the first place that a fiber-tempered 

 complex has been found in situ in west Florida and is only the second 

 place where undisturbed Fort Walton village material has been avail- 

 able for extensive study. Investigations at three other sites produced 

 materials that will help in filling the gap between the Deptford and 

 Fort Walton periods at the large site. One of the three indicated a 

 Weeden Island period and another a Kolomoki complex. That is the 

 first time "pure" Kolomoki remains have been found in Florida. 



Mississippi. — The Grenada Reservoir area on the Yalobusha River 

 in Mississippi had been surveyed for archeological remains during a 

 previous fiscal j^ear by the University of Mississippi operating under a 

 cooperative agreement with the National Park Service. Upon the com- 

 pletion of that survey 4 of the 51 sites found were recommended for 

 excavation. To determine whether digging there was more essential 

 than in some other areas, several of the sites were examined during 

 August 25-27, 1952. It was finally decided that the meager funds 

 available for digging might be used to better advantage in districts 

 where less was known about the cultural manifestations, particularly 

 so since there is a considerable number of sites in the Grenada basin 

 that will not be affected and can be investigated at some future date. 



