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in the Bull Shoals, Clearwater, Pomme de Terre, Joanna, Table Rock, 
and Waco Reservoirs, and carried on excavations in key sites at Bull 
Shoals and Clearwater. The University of Oklahoma did some exca- 
vation work in a village site which will be flooded by the Fort Gibson 
Reservoir on the Grand (Neosho) River. The University of Kansas 
did survey work and started excavations at a village site in the Kanap- 
olis River basin on the Smoky Hill River in Kansas. In Nebraska the 
State Historical Society carried on excavations at archeological sites 
in the Medicine Creek Reservoir area outside the Federally acquired 
lands adding important supplemental information on remains beyond 
the localities being worked by the River Basin Surveys. The Lab- 
oratory of Anthropology of the University of Nebraska excavated in 
two important sites in the Harlan County Reservoir area on the Re- 
publican River in the southern part of the State. The University of 
Nebraska State Museum carried on paleontological work near the 
Medicine Creek Dam site and on Lime Creek, a tributary of Medicine 
Creek, where important information was obtained on some of the earli- 
est cultural remains thus far found in North America. The Museum 
also collected paleontological material from the Harlan County Reser- 
voir. The University of North Dakota, in cooperation with the 
North Dakota Historical Society, carried on excavations at the Heart 
Butte Reservoir, on the Heart River, in the summer of 1947, and at 
the Baldhill Reservoir on the Sheyenne River beginning June 21, 
1948. The University of Colorado made a preliminary reconnais- 
sance of the 8 reservoir areas comprising the Colorado-Big Thompson 
project, while the University of Denver made brief surveys of 12 reser- 
voir basins comprising the Blue-South Platte project. Western 
State College of Colorado did preliminary work in nine reservoir 
basins of the Gunnison-Arkansas project. The Museum of Northern 
Arizona, at Flagstaff, assumed responsibility for surveys at the Alamo 
project on Williams River in the western part of the State, but had 
not started investigations at the end of the year. The Archeological 
Surveys Association of Southern California, sponsored by a number 
of museums in that area, completed surveys in eight proposed reservoir 
and flood-control projects in that portion of the State. The Univer- 
sity of California, at Berkeley, took over responsibility for the exca- 
vation of key sites located by the River Basin Surveys in the Pine 
Flat Reservoir on King’s River and in the Isabella Reservoir on Kern 
River. Actual operations had not yet gotten under way, however, 
by June 30. 
Progress reports and completed reports prepared by the cooperat- 
ing organizations are sent to the River Basin Surveys so that the 
results of their investigations may be coordinated with the over-all 
