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Plains Archeology in November lie gave a resume of the Jamestown 

 investigations and read a paper on the preceramic subsistence patterns 

 in the Great Plains. On May 1 he presented a paper on Dakota 

 mounds and earthworks at the 63d annual meeting of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences. In the late spring he collaborated with Dr. 

 Donald J. Lehmer on a paper, "Time Horizons in the Northern Plains." 



Dr. Theodore E. White, geologist, was in charge of the paleontolog- 

 ical field party during all its operations. As previously noted, work 

 during the 1952 season was in the Canyon Ferry, Garrison, and Oahe 

 reservoir areas, and in June 1953 the party returned to the Canyon 

 Ferry Reservoir in Montana for additional collecting. From Sep- 

 tember 15 to November 6, 1952, and from April 2 to May 30, 1953, 

 Dr. White was in the laboratory at Lincoln. During those periods 

 he was occupied in identifying osteological material collected by the 

 various archeological excavating parties. Dr. Wliite's other activities 

 were discussed in connection with the operations of the Washington 

 office. 



Cooperating institutions. — ^Various State and local institutions co- 

 operated in the Inter-Agency Salvage Program during the year. 

 Most of those activities were on the basis of agreements between the 

 agencies and the National Park Service, but in a few cases State 

 groups carried on independently, although correlating their efforts 

 closely with the over-all operations. The Ohio State Archeological 

 and Historical Society continued to assume responsibility for all 

 reservoir areas in that State. The Indiana Historical Society in- 

 cluded surveys of potential reservoir areas in its general program for 

 archeological research in Indiana and made periodical reports on the 

 results of the investigations. Institutions working under agreements 

 with the Service and the projects undertaken were : California Arche- 

 ological Survey, University of California, Berkeley, made surveys of 

 the proposed Trinity, Lewiston, Mooney Gulch, Red Bank, Oroville, 

 Nimbus, Ice House, Union Valley, Pilot Creek, San Luis, and San 

 Lucas Reservoirs of California and the Humboldt River and trib- 

 utaries in Nevada, and started excavations in sites in the Nimbus and 

 Red Bank areas; the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh excavated in 

 the Conemaugh Reservoir area on the Conemaugh River in Pennsyl- 

 vania; the Florida State Museum of the University of Florida dug a 

 number of sites in the portion of the Jim Woodruff Reservoir basin 

 located in Florida ; the University of Kansas continued excavations at 

 a site in the Fort Randall Reservoir basin in South Dakota; the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri excavated in the Pomme de Terre Reservoir on 

 the river of the same name and at the Table Rock Reservoir on the 

 White River in Missouri ; Montana State University dug several small 

 sites in the Garrison Reservoir area in North Dakota ; the Nebraska 



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