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Arclieological sites here are characteristically located on slight rises 

 close to a river or stream. Numerous sandstone fragments lie on or 

 near the surface of the sites, and other than these stones, all surface 

 arclieological features have been obliterated by intensive cultivation. 

 The principal stone used in the manufacture of chipped-stone arti- 

 facts is a chert from the Flint Hills region, some 50 miles to the 

 northwest, in Marion, Chase, and Morris Counties, Kans. A popular 

 source of material for ground-stone tools is a coquina-like Permian 

 limestone of the Cottonwood formation, which outcrops in Greenwood 

 County. 



The Inter- Agency Arclieological Salvage Program has conducted 

 three seasons of archeological investigations within the area of the 

 Toronto Dam and Eeservoir (see report of the Committee for the 

 Recovery of Archaeological Remains, 1958). The first season of in- 

 vestigations consisted of a brief, initial survey of a portion of the 

 area in May 1953 by Edward H. Moorman, working out of the Region 

 3 Office of the National Park Service. The short time available for 

 this survey limited the results to the locating, visiting, and recording 

 of but three archeological sites in Greenwood County (14GR1-3) 

 and two sites in Woodson County ( 14W01-2) . No testing or excava- 

 tion was possible, but the survey was sufficient to indicate that con- 

 siderable archeological potential existed in several sections of the flood 

 area. Additional survey and investigation was recommended within 

 the framework of the Salvage Program. 



The second season of salvage in the Toronto Reservoir was under- 

 taken in September and October 1956, by Alfred E. Jolinson and 

 two assistants, working out of the Lincoln, Nebr., office of the River 

 Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution. Jolmson, then a student 

 at the University of Kansas and a temporary staff member of the 

 River Basin Surveys, and his party worked intermittently for 6 weeks 

 in the area, revisited the sites located by Moorman, made additional 

 surface collections from them, and excavated three 5-foot test squares 

 in one of the most promising of them (14W01). In addition, this 

 party located, visited, and recorded 18 more sites in Greenwood 

 County (14GR201-218) and 13 more sites in Woodson County (14 

 WO201-213), to bring the total of sites in the Toronto Reservoir area 

 to 36. Jolinson also dug three 5-foot test squares in site 14WO203 

 and excavated three hearths in site 14GR209 that had been partially 

 exposed by heavy equipment in road-construction activities. Surface 

 collections of artifacts were made from nearly all sites located, petro- 

 glyplis were recorded in one site, and data regarding terrain, geology, 

 and general archeological considerations were recorded. Johnson 

 (1957) prepared a report of these sites, analyzing the materials re- 

 covered, recommending certain sites for more intensive investigation, 



