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a general study of archeology in the Plateau Area. In addition to 

 reporting on the results of his own excavations, Dr. Shiner sum- 

 marizes those obtained by other men working in the McNary Keser- 

 voir area. Some of the latter information is presented more fully 

 by Dr. Osborne in his paper No. 8, but Dr. Shiner gives sufficient 

 data to provide a well-rounded picture of the archeological man- 

 ifestations in the McNary. 



The fourth paper in this group presents the findings by Dr. Douglas 

 Osborne and his assistants in the course of the excavations which they 

 made on Sheep Island. Most of the digging was done in burial and 

 midden areas, and while virtually no information pertaining to 

 dwellings and other occupation area features was obtained, a good 

 series of specimens was collected and the authors of the paper have 

 been able to relate the Sheep Island remains to others in the mid- 

 Columbia Valley. Some previous work had been done on Sheep 

 Island by Thomas R. Garth. The authors of the present paper 

 review and discuss Garth's findings and correlate them with their 

 own. 



The Shiner paper and the one on Sheep Island by Osborne, Bryan, 

 and Crabtree, complete the reports for the work done in the McNary 

 Reservoir area by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. Other studies were made there by local institutions, but 

 the results of their investigations will appear elsewhere. 



Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. 

 Director^ River Basin Surveys 



