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cleaned and cataloged. A report on the investigations at Albeni 

 Falls was completed and one on the test digging at The Dalles was 

 practically finished by the end of the year. A collection of specimens 

 from a previous year's digging in the McNary Reservoir was packed 

 and shipped to Washington. 



Four articles pertaining to the results of previous work in the 

 Columbia Basin were published in American Antiquity, volume 17, 

 No. 4, April 1952. They were : "The 1950 Excavations at Site 45BN6 

 McNary Reservoir, Wash.," by Joel L. Shiner; "Material Culture of 

 an Upper Coulee Rock-shelter," by John E. Mills and Carolyn 

 Osborne; "Archeological Investigations in the Chief Joseph Reser- 

 voir," by Douglas Osborne, Robert Crabtree, and Alan Bryan; and 

 "Archeological Investigations in O'Sullivan Reservoir, Grant County, 

 Wash.," by Richard D. Daugherty. 



Mr. Shiner's affiliation with the River Basin Surveys terminated on 

 June 30 by transfer to the National Park Service. The River Basin 

 Surveys office at Eugene was to be kept open, however, by the National 

 Park Service, and Mr. Shiner was to be permitted to complete his 

 reports on the work he did for the Smithsonian Institution. The 

 River Basin Surveys will have no further operations in that area. 



Georgia. — As in the case of the Columbia Basin, field work in the 

 Georgia area was handicapped by the delay in obtaining funds and 

 the limited amount of money available for the project. During the 

 period from August 18 until the end of October an emergency co- 

 operative excavation project, as described in an earlier section of 

 this report, was carried on at the Lake Springs site on the Savannah 

 River just above the Clark Hill Dam. A large sample of archaic 

 material representing a prepottery horizon called the Savannah River 

 Focus of the Stalling's Island Culture was obtained there together 

 with a small series of contemporary crania showing a population of 

 both round- and long-headed individuals. The most important dis- 

 covery at the site, however, was a new early culture deep below the 

 archaic levels. This new manifestation, which has been designated 

 the Old Quartz Culture, showed an artifact assemblage similar to 

 those which had been found at a large number of open stations in 

 Piedmont Georgia and South Carolina. They have been regarded 

 as probably early but could not be so proven until the discovery of 

 the stratigraphy at Lake Springs. Unfortunately, the rising waters 

 of the Clark Hill Reservoir flooded the excavation pits before as 

 much work had been done as was desired, but the results obtained 

 are a definite contribution to the archeology of the region. 



In late January and February test excavations were carried on in 

 the remains of Fort Charlotte at the upper end of the Clark Hill 

 Reservoir in South Carolina. Although located in the latter State 



