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Early in August Mr. Caldwell received word that an important 

 site located a short distance above the Clark Hill Dam on the Savan- 

 nah River, Ga., would be inundated well in advance of the date 

 originally indicated by the engineers. With funds provided by the 

 Smithsonian Institution and the University of Georgia and with the 

 help of the resident engineer of the Corps of Engineers, he started 

 excavations on the 18th of the month and continued to dig until he 

 and his party were driven out by water at the end of October. When 

 Federal funds became available in September the River Basin Sur- 

 veys took over the financing of the project. During January and Feb- 

 ruary Mr. Caldwell carried on test excavations at the remains of Fort 

 Charlotte at the upper end of the Clark Hill Reservoir in South Caro- 

 lina. While at his headquarters at Athens, Mr. Caldwell completed 

 five preliminary reports and made considerable progress on the final 

 technical report of his part of the excavations at the Allatoona Reser- 

 voir. The report on Fort Charlotte was mimeographed and ready 

 for distribution at the close of the fiscal year. An article on work 

 completed a previous fiscal year, "The Booger Bottom Mound: A 

 Forsyth Period Site in Hall County, Ga.," was published in Ameri- 

 can Antiquity, volume 17, No. 4, April 1952. Mr. Caldwell's employ- 

 ment by the River Basin Surveys was terminated as of June 30, 1952, 

 by his transfer to the National Park Service. 



Dr. Theodore E. White, geologist, divided his time between the 

 Washington office and the Missouri Basin. He spent the winter and 

 early spring months in Washington cleaning, identifying, and cata- 

 loging specimens he had collected during the field season. He also 

 identified four lots of mammal bones from archeological excavations 

 along the Columbia River, and four lots of bones from the Missouri 

 Basin which were sent to Washington for that purpose. He com- 

 pleted a manuscript, "Preliminary Analysis of the Vertebrate Fossil 

 Fauna of the Canyon Ferry Reservoir Area," which was accepted for 

 publication in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 

 and two papers on observations on the butchering techniques of ab- 

 original peoples as indicated by the bones from the refuse deposits at 

 archeological sites. One paper, "Preliminary Analysis of the Verte- 

 brate Fossil Fauna of the Boysen Reservoir Area," was published in 

 the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 102, 

 No. 3296, April 1952. Another, "Observations on the Butchering 

 Technique of Some Aboriginal Peoples, I," appeared in American 

 Antiquity, volume 17, No. 4, April 1952. A third, "Suggestions for 

 Facilitating Identification of Animal Bone from Archeological 

 Sites," was printed in the Plains Archeological Conference News 

 Letter, volume 5, No. 1, May 1952. In May Dr. White left Washing- 

 ton to continue his field investigations in the Missouri Basin. 



