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it recommended that excavations be made in 11 of the sites and that 

 minor test trenching be done at four others. Because of lack of 

 funds it was not possible to initiate fieldwork at Texarkana until the 

 spring of 1952, and the money then available was sufficient only for 

 the work done at the three sites which Mr. Jelks describes in his 

 report. The area was important because of its position with respect 

 to the Caddoan remains along the Red River to the east and south, 

 and it is unfortunate that more digging could not have been ac- 

 complished. Most of the area has been under water for several years. 



The initial investigations at the Coralville Reservoir in Iowa were 

 made in January and February of 1949 by Richard P. Wheeler. 

 Weather conditions at that time were not favorable to reconnaissance 

 work, but because construction of the Coralville Dam seemed immi- 

 ment it was thought necessary to determine to some extent what arche- 

 ological investigations might be involved. Wlieeler located 8 mound 

 sites and 1 occupation area and learned from local residents of 10 

 other sites in the Basin. He was able to study artifacts previously 

 collected from the surface at those sites, but because of a deep cover 

 of snow could not inspect the areas where the specimens were found. 

 Mr. Wheeler's work did demonstrate that the Coralville Basin merited 

 further study, and such was recommended. It was not possible to 

 resume investigations there in the immediately ensuing years since 

 money for that work was not appropriated. It was not until the 

 summer of 1956 that funds were provided for some additional work 

 in that region. By that time construction of the dam was proceeding 

 so rapidly that it was decided to devote all the efforts to excavations 

 rather than to completing the survey. Because of its location with 

 respect to the Missouri Basin Project, the salvage party under Dr. 

 Warren W. Caldwell operated out of the field headquarters at Lin- 

 coln, Nebr. During the period from August 28 to October 13, 

 Dr. Caldwell's group completed the excavation of one rock shelter, 

 tested two others, dug three occupation sites in the open, and tested 

 three others. In addition, two mounds were also excavated. The 

 results of this work are given in the paper by Dr. Caldwell. The 

 Coralville Dam was completed in 1958 and most of the sites in the 

 reservoir basin have been flooded. 



Starting in the summer of 1947, work in the McNary Reservoir 

 area along the Columbia River was carried on over a period of sev- 

 eral years. The results of some of the excavations conducted by 

 River Basin Surveys parties have already been published in River 

 Basin Surveys Paper No. 8, "Excavations in the McNary Reservoir 

 Basin near Umatilla, Oregon," by Dr. Douglas Osborne. Digging 

 at other sites is described by Dr. Joel L. Shiner in the report which 

 constitutes the third paper in this volume. Dr. Shiner, however, has 

 done more than make a series of detailed site reports, and presents 



