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of summary statements on the T years of the project's activities. He 

 also virtually completed a technical report, "Archeological Investiga- 

 tions in the Whitney Reservoir Area, Hill County, Texas," and pre- 

 pared an article on salvage archeology for the Bible Archeological 

 Digest and a paper, "Taxonomy and Chronology in the Central Plains- 

 Middle Missouri River Area," which was published in the Plains An- 

 thropologist, No. 1. He also took an active part in the Eleventh 

 Conference for Plains Archeology and presented a paper at the Sixty- 

 fourth Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in 

 Omaha. He gave the principal address at the Semiannual Meeting 

 of the Missouri Archeological Society held in Kansas City in May. 

 In June he made a tour of inspection, visiting the various field parties 

 working in the Missouri Basin. 



Richard Page Wheeler, archeologist, was at the field headquarters 

 at the beginning of the fiscal year working on reports covering his 

 previous investigations. On August 13 he proceeded to the Oahe 

 Reservoir area in South Dakota where until October 9 he, with two 

 assistants, made an intensive survey of the lower section of the area. 

 In the course of the work 82 previously recorded sites were visited and 

 16 new ones were discovered. In a number of instances material new 

 to the Oahe area was noted and one of the sites gave evidence of five 

 successive occupations. After returning to headquarters Wheeler de- 

 voted the winter and spring months to work on technical reports con- 

 cerning excavations made in previous seasons at the Angostura, 

 Boysen, and Keyhole reservoirs in South Dakota and Wyoming. He 

 completed two articles; one, "Selected Projectile Point Types of the 

 United States: II," was published in the Bulletin of the Oklahoma 

 Anthropological Society, vol. 2, while the other, "Two New Pro- 

 jectile Point Types: Duncan and Hanna Points," was printed in the 

 Plains Anthropologist, No. 1. He participated in the Eleventh Con- 

 ference for Plains Archeology and attended the Sixty-fourth Annual 

 Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences where he presented a 

 paper, "New Contributions to the Archeology of Oahe Reservoir." 

 At that time he was elected chairman of the anthropology' section for 

 the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy. On June 3 Wheeler 

 proceeded to the Jamestown Reservoir in North Dakota and resumed 

 excavations at a site where he dug in 1952. While that work was 

 going on he also made a survey of the upper end of the reservoir basin. 

 The Jamestown investigations were completed and Wheeler returned 

 to the Lincoln Office on June 30. 



Tennessee. — The only work done in Tennessee during the year was 

 the detailed surveys of the Cheatham Lock and Dam and Old Hickory 

 Lock and Dam projects on the Cumberland River near Nashville. A 

 brief preliminary reconnaissance of the area in June 1953 indicated 

 that a more extended examination was warranted and arrangements 



