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made the operations possible. The progress of the program as a 

 whole was greatly furthered by the enthusiastic help of Park Service 

 personnel. 



General direction and supervision of the work in California, Geor- 

 gia, and Virginia were from the main office in Washington. In the 

 Columbia Basin the program was directed from a field office and 

 laboratory at Eugene, Oreg. ; that in the Missouri Basin was under 

 the supervision of a field office and laboratory at Lincoln, Nebr. ; and 

 that in Texas was under a field office and laboratory at Austin. The 

 materials collected by the survey and excavating parties in those three 

 areas were processed at the respective field laboratories. The collec- 

 tions made in Georgia were processed at a laboratory in Athens. 



At the end of the fiscal year a change was made in the plan of 

 operations for the Inter- Agency Salvage Program. The work of the 

 Kiver Basin Surveys was terminated in the Columbia Basin and Pacific 

 coast areas, in the Southwest including Texas, and in Georgia and 

 other portions of the Southeast. With the beginning of the new 

 fiscal year the direction and supervision of the investigations in those 

 areas were to be under the National Park Service with its respective 

 regional offices in direct charge. At the close of the year arrange- 

 ments were being made to transfer certain of the Kiver Basin Surveys' 

 personnel to the National Park Service and for the latter agency to 

 take over the various field headquarters. 



Washington office. — Throughout the fiscal year the main headquar- 

 ters of the River Basin Surveys continued under the direction of 

 Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, Joseph R. Caldwell, and 

 Ralph S. Solecki, archeologists, were based on that office. Because of 

 lack of funds for work outside the Missouri Basin, however, Miller 

 was assigned to the Missouri Basin project during July, August, and 

 September, and Caldwell was on leave without pay until Septem- 

 ber 10, 1952. Solecki was on leave of absence with an expedition to 

 Iraq for most of the year, returning to duty with the surveys in May. 



Mr. Miller's activities in the Missouri Basin are discussed in that 

 section of this report. During the fall and winter months at the 

 Washington office he completed his technical paper on the excavations 

 he supervised at the Allatoona Reservoir in Georgia during an earlier 

 fiscal year and processed specimens from sites which he dug at the 

 John H. Kerr (formerly called Buggs Island) Reservoir the latter 

 part of the previous fiscal year. In May he returned to the John H. 

 Kerr Reservoir area on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia and 

 carried on test excavations at a number of sites. That work was 

 completed on June 30 and Mr. Miller returned to Washington. The 

 gates of the dam were scheduled to be closed early in July, and no 

 further investigations are planned for that area. 





