62 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
ographed and distributed in October 1958. Since the start of the 
Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program, 185 appraisal reports 
have been issued. In a number of cases the information obtained 
from several reservoir projects located within a single basin or sub- 
basin have been combined in one report and for that reason there is 
a discrepancy between the number of reservoirs surveyed and that of 
the reports issued. 
At the end of the fiscal year, 434 sites in 54 reservoir basins located 
in 19 different States had been either partially or extensively dug. 
In some reservoir areas only a single site was excavated, while in 
others a whole series was studied. At least one example of each type 
of site recommended by the preliminary surveys had been investi- 
gated. Where some of the larger and more complex types of village 
remains were involved, it was necessary to dig a number of somewhat 
similar sites in order to obtain full information about that particular 
phase of aboriginal culture. The sites investigated represent cultural 
complexes ranging from the early hunting peoples of approximately 
10,000 years ago to early historic Indian village remains and frontier 
trading and army posts of European origin. Reports on the results 
obtained in some of the excavations have appeared in the Smithsonian 
Miscellaneous Collections, in Bulletins of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology, and in various scientific journals. During the year River 
Basin Surveys Papers Nos. 9 through 14, comprising Bulletin 166 
of the Bureau of American Ethnology, were published and dis- 
tributed. The papers consist of three reports on excavations in the 
Missouri Basin, one on digging in the Alatoona Reservoir in Georgia, 
one on investigations in six sites in the Jim Woodruff Reservoir basin 
in Florida, and one on historic sites in and adjacent to the Jim Wood- 
ruff Reservoir area in Florida-Georgia. The Missouri Basin reports 
were written by Paul L. Cooper, Robert B. Cumming, Jr., and Carlyle 
S. Smith and Roger T. Grange, Jr. Those pertaining to the South- 
east were prepared by William H. Sears, Mark F. Boyd, and Ripley 
P. Bullen. River Basin Papers Nos. 15-21, which will constitute 
Bulletin No. 176 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, were sent 
to the printer in March. That series of papers pertains to studies 
in historic sites in the Fort Randall, Oahe, and Garrison Reservoir 
areas in South Dakota and North Dakota. Nine detailed technical 
reports were completed during the year and are ready for publication 
when the funds sufficient to cover their cost are available. In addi- 
tion, the first and second drafts of seven technical reports were 
finished. The final drafts should be ready early in the next fiscal year. 
As of June 30, 1959, the distribution of the reservoir projects that 
had been surveyed for archeological remains was as follows: Ala- 
bama, 4; Arkansas, 1; California, 20; Colorado, 24; Georgia, 8; Idaho, 
