56 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
The proposed survey of the Greer’s Ferry Reservoir area, which 
was postponed the previous year because of high waters, was not 
made during the current year by a River Basin Surveys party as con- 
templated. Instead the University of Arkansas, working under an 
agreement with the National Park Service, carried out the prelimi- 
nary investigations at Greer’s Ferry. The situation there was some- 
what comparable to that in the Dardanelle area in that weather con- 
ditions hampered the work to a considerable degree. It was planned 
that another party from the University would return to the Greer’s 
Ferry area shortly after the beginning of the new fiscal year. 
Iowa.—No fieldwork was carried on in Iowa during the fiscal year 
ended June 30, 1958. However, the detailed technical report “Archeo- 
logical Salvage Investigations in the Coralville Reservoir, lowa” was 
completed during the year and will be available for publication as 
soon as funds for that purpose are available. The report consists of 
100 typed pages, 12 plates, and 15 text figures. 
Kansas.—The only activity on the part of the River Basin Surveys 
during the fiscal year pertaining to Kansas was that of the comple- 
tion of the detailed technical report on the excavation in eight sites 
in the Toronto Reservoir Basin during the spring months of 1957. A 
typed manuscript of 90 pages with 12 plates and 15 text figures is now 
ready to submit to the editors. 
Missouri Basin.—As in previous years, the Missouri Basin Project 
continued to operate from the field headquarters and laboratory at 
1517 “O” Street, Lincoln, Nebr. Dr. Robert L. Stephenson served 
as chief of the Project throughout the year. Activities included work 
on all four phases of the salvage program: (1) Survey, (2) excava- 
tion, (3) analysis, and (4) reporting. The first two phases received 
major attention in the summer months, and the second two during the 
fall and winter. In addition to the four regular phases of the pro- 
gram, a special chronology program was initiated during the year. 
At the beginning of the fiscal year the staff, in addition to the 
chief, consisted of 4 permanent archeologists, 1 archeologist detailed 
to the Project from the Washington office, 5 temporary field assist- 
ants, 1 field assistant detailed to the project from the Washington 
office, 1 temporary physical anthropologist on duty in the Washing- 
ton office, 1 field and laboratory assistant, 1 administrative assistant, 
1 museum aide, 1 clerk-stenographer, 1 file clerk (half time), 1 
photographer, 1 clerk-typist, 2 temporary laboratory assistants, 1 
temporary (part time) draftsman, and 79 temporary field crewmen. 
At the end of the 1957 summer field season, all temporary field crew- 
men were terminated, with the exception of one who was assigned 
laboratory assistant’s duties in the Lincoln office. The physical an- 
thropologist subsequently was on duty in the Missouri Basin for 8 
