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were made for further investigations. During the period from May 17 

 to June 2 both projects were covered on foot, by vehicle, by boat, and 

 by two flights over them in light planes for photographic purposes. 

 The Cheatham Dam is located 35 river miles below Nashville and 

 the reservoir it impounds will be about 67.5 river miles long. Twenty 

 archeological sites were found in the area but only one will be affected 

 by the flooding of the basin. The others, lying on the second and 

 third bottoms or higher slopes will not be in danger. The one which 

 will be involved represents an Archaic horizon and test digging in it 

 was recommended. At one of the higher-level locations a fluted point 

 was found in association with a series of nondescript flakes and chips. 

 This indicates that the Paleo-Indian was in the area, although there 

 may not be a true site for that horizon. The Old Hickory Dam is 

 located 25 river miles upstream from Nashville and 2 river miles below 

 the town of Old Hickory. The reservoir which it forms will extend 

 97.3 river miles above it. Twenty-three archeological sites were found 

 within the limits of the proposed pool. The sites comprise 18 Archaic, 

 1 Middle Mississippi, 1 cave of undetermined cultural affiliations, al- 

 though probably Middle Mississippi, and 3 which did not give suf- 

 ficient surface evidence to permit identification. Test excavations 

 were recommended for four of the sites. 



Cooperating institutions. — As in previous years, a number of State 

 and local institutions cooperated in the Inter- Agency Salvage Pro- 

 gram. In a few cases State groups carried on independently, but 

 correlated their activity closely with the over-all operations. Most of 

 the projects, how^ever, were under agreements between the National 

 Park Service and the various agencies. In Indiana the Historical 

 Society continued to include surveys of proposed reservoir areas in its 

 general program for archeological investigations in that State and 

 made reports on the results of its work. The Ohio State Archeological 

 and Historical Society again conducted salvage operations in several 

 localities. The Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Bir- 

 mingham Anthropological Society voluntarily investigated the situa- 

 tion along the Coosa River Valley where a series of dams was planned 

 by the Alabama Power Company. Louisiana State University made a 

 survey of the construction area for a new river channel at the mouth 

 of Old River in Louisiana. The cooperative efforts of the Kansas 

 State College and Laboratory of Anthropology of the University of 

 Nebraska at the Tuttle Creek Dam have already been discussed. 



Institutions working under agreements with the National Park 

 Service and the projects undertaken were: the University of Calif- 

 ornia, Berkeley, in the summer of 1953 completed the excavation of 

 sites in the Nimbus and Redbank Reservoir basins, obtaining impor- 

 tant data from the latter, and in the late spring of 1954 began investi- 

 gations in the Monticello Reservoir basin ; the University of Missouri 



