(C2 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
National Park Service to conduct archeological excavations at the 
site of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Md. 
Richard P. Wheeler, archeologist, was at the Lincoln headquarters 
throughout the year until June 20. During this period he spent his 
time preparing technical reports on work completed in previous 
years. He completed the final section of a draft of a lengthy, detailed 
report on excavations conducted during 1949-51 in the Angostura 
Reservoir area in South Dakota and the Boyson and Keyhole Reser- 
voir areas in Wyoming. He also completed the draft of a technical 
report on excavations in the Jamestown Reservoir area in North 
Dakota. At the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology, in Lincoln, 
he presented a preliminary statement on the Stutsman Focus, and a 
paper, jointly with Harry E. Weakly, dealing with the cultural and 
chronological sequences at Birdshead Cave, Wyo. A third paper pre- 
sented at that meeting dealt with radiocarbon dates and prehistory in 
the central and northern Plains. As previously mentioned, he col- 
laborated with Charles H. McNutt in preparing a paper for submission 
to American Antiquity. From April 30 to May 3 he attended the 
annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology in Norman, 
Okla. 
Snake River Basin—No field explorations were carried on in the 
Snake River Basin during the fiscal year. However, one report on 
the investigations made there during the previous year was completed. 
It is called “Archeological Salvage Investigations in the Hell’s Canyon 
Area, Snake River, Oregon and Idaho.” The manuscript consists of 
95 typed pages and has 8 plates and 6 text figures. The material and 
information upon which the report is based were mainly from two 
sites in the vicinity of Robinette, Oreg. Another report pertaining 
to the excavations on the Idaho side of the river at Big Bar has not 
yet been completed, but it is well under way. 
South Carolina-Georgia.—Excavations were made at two sites in 
the Hartwell Reservoir Basin during the period from April 22 to 
June 21. One of them was located in South Carolina and the other 
in Georgia. In addition, three other sites in the South Carolina area 
were inspected and an extensive surface collection of artifacts was 
made at one of them. Owing to the refusal of the owner to permit 
digging, no attempt was made at the latter site to determine its depth 
or the extent of its deposits. 
One of the sites where digging was carried on is located in the 
fork created by the juncture of the Tugaloo and Chauga Rivers. The 
site originally consisted of one large mound flanked on either side 
by alow mound. During the last 10 to 12 years the large mound was 
intentionally reduced in height in order to facilitate cultivation of 
the field where it is situated. Consequently its present height of 
12 feet above the level of the bottom lands does not represent its 
