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Nebr., were responsible for the activities in the Missouri Basin and in 

 addition provided the base of operations for several of the parties 

 working in adjacent areas. The materials collected by excavating 

 parties in the Missouri Basin as well as those from the Snake River 

 and reservoir areas in southeastern Kansas and in Arkansas were 

 processed at the Lincoln laboratory. 



Washington office. — The main headquarters of the River Basin Sur- 

 veys continued throughout the year under the direction of Dr. Frank 

 H. H. Roberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, archeologist, was based at that 

 office and from time to time assisted the Director in some of the gen- 

 eral administrative problems. In October Joseph R. Caldwell was 

 appointed as temporary archeologist to carry on the project at the 

 Hartwell Reservoir in Georgia, with field headquarters at the Uni- 

 versity of Georgia in Athens. His work was completed and his ap- 

 pointment terminated on April 6, 1957. Dr. Robert E. Greengo 

 joined the staff as an archeologist on a temporary appointment March 

 6 for the purpose of making the preliminary survey at the Dardanelle 

 Reservoir project in Arkansas. Dr. Greengo proceeded from Wash- 

 ington to Lincoln, Nebr., where he obtained the necessary equipment 

 for his fieldwork and went from there to Arkansas. The general ad- 

 ministration of his field investigation was from the Lincoln office. 

 Upon the completion of the survey, Dr. Greengo returned to Lincoln 

 where he prepared his report. He subsequently returned to Wash- 

 ington, and his employment was terminated on May 4. From the be- 

 ginning of the fiscal year until the latter part of August William M. 

 Bass served as a temporary physical anthropologist studying the 

 skeletal material collected by various parties in the Missouri Basin. 

 He returned to duty on June 3 and resumed his work on the bones. 

 He was occupied with that task at the end of the fiscal year. Al- 

 though technically a member of the staff of the Washington office, Dr. 

 James H. Howard, archeologist, reported to the Lincoln office on 

 May 13 and worked under its supervision in the Toronto Reservoir 

 area in Kansas. His work there was completed by the end of the 

 year, and it was contemplated that he would be shifted to the Missouri 

 Basin Project. Dr. Warren W. Caldwell, who was in charge of the 

 Snake River field party at the beginning of the fiscal year, was shifted 

 by the Washington office to the Missouri Basin Project in August. 

 His place for the remainder of the field season was taken by George L. 

 Coale, who served as a temporary archeologist until December 15. 

 After being appointed a member of the regular Missouri Basin staff, 

 Dr. Caldwell was detailed to the Coral ville project in Iowa for the 

 period from August 28 to October 13. He subsequently returned to 

 the Lincoln headquarters, and all his later activities were in connec- 

 tion with the Missouri Basin Project, 



