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South Boston and Virgilina in Halifax County, Va. ; Charlotte Court 

 House in Charlotte County, Va. ; Warrenton in Warren County, N.C. ; 

 Henderson in Vance County, N.C. ; and Oxford in Granville County, 

 N.C. The base of operations for the iirst season was in South Boston, 

 and for subsequent seasons in Clarksville because this city proved to 

 be more centrally located within the limits of the reservoir. 



Both the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the National Park Service 

 aided and abetted the project in every way and made all possible ef- 

 forts to facilitate the work. 



The District Engmeers of the U.S. Corps of Engineers arranged 

 for office space in the field, supplied maps and various reports, and 

 provided appropriate field transportation facilities for the type of 

 terrain to be covered by the survey. They also furnished additional 

 maps which were used in copies of the paper entitled "Appraisal of 

 the Archeological Resources, Buggs Island Reservoir, in Mecklenburg, 

 Halifax, and Charlotte Counties, Virginia ; Yf arren, Vance, and Gran- 

 ville Counties, North Carolina, October, 1947" (Miller, 1947), pre- 

 pared by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution. The 

 Engineering personnel cooperated wholeheartedly during the process 

 of the survey and rendered considerable help in various ways. 



The Region 1 Office of the National Park Service, Richmond, Va., 

 made available previous reports on certain archeological manifesta- 

 tions in the area and served as liaison between the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and the District Engineers, U.S. Corps of Engineers, while 

 preliminary arrangements were being made. The assistance of these 

 agencies is greatly appreciated. 



In addition, the survey is indebted to Mr. William Maxey, of Rich- 

 mond, Va., Mr. and Mrs. James V. Howe, of JefTress, Va., Mr, Arthur 

 Robertson, of Chase City, Va., Judge Jolm Tisdale, of Clarksdale, Va., 

 and Mrs. Ruth Northington, of La Crosse, Va., for guiding the writer 

 to a number of sites in and immediately outside of the reservoir basin. 

 The writer wishes to express his deep appreciation to Dr. Frank H. H. 

 Roberts, Jr., director of the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, for his suggestions and guidance, to Mr. Floyd Kestner and his 

 staff for the remarkable photographs and Mr. Edward Scliumacher for 

 the line drawings used to illustrate this report, to Mrs. Eloise B. 

 Edelen and Mrs. Phyllis W. Prescott for editing the manuscript, and 

 finally to Mrs. Ruth W. IMiller for her help in excavating many of 

 the sites. 



With the completion of several site excavations by the River Basin 

 Surveys, it is now possible to present the analysis of the aboriginal 

 occupations of the John H. Kerr Reservoir Basin and to denote any 

 possible tie-in with the nearby Philpot Reservoir area in the. vicinity 

 of Martinsville, Henry County, Va. Therefore, I propose to present a 

 chronological and cultural sequence based upon the materials collected 



