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Using a recently published date as a starting point, we find that the area to be 

 inundated by the waters of the Toronto Reservoir was occupied, at least, from 

 A.D. 611 (plus or minus 240 years) on. This date is from the Woodruff Ossuary, 

 situated just south of the Nebraska line in Phillips Coimty, Kansas, which has 

 been assigned to the Keith Focus of the Woodland Pattern (Wedel and Kivett, 



1956, p. 414). This beginning date would probably be extended considerably 

 into the past if the material from the Archaic component at 14GR216 were 

 sufl3cient to allow its identification with other sites from that complex. [Johnson, 



1957, pp. 58-^9.] 



The third and final season of archeological salvage in the Toronto 

 Reservoir area was accomplished during a continuous 6-week period 

 from May 15 to June 30, 1957, by Dr. James H. Howard and four 

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

 Surveys, Smithsonian Institution. Howard, then a temporary staff 

 member of the River Basin Surveys, and his party revisited many of 

 the sites located by Moorman in 1953, and by Johnson in 1956, made 

 additional surface collections from them, and conducted excavations in 

 four of the sites that had been recommended by Johnson for further 

 work. All four were open, occupation areas. One of these was site 

 14GR210, where four 5-foot test squares were excavated, and to which 

 Johnson's data did not permit assignment of a cultural affiliation. A 

 second was site 14GR216, where a trench 65 feet long and 5 feet wide 

 was excavated and later widened by excavation of three 5-foot squares 

 on each side of the base trench. Johnson had assigned the three com- 

 ponents of this site to the Upper Republican Aspect, the Keith Focus, 

 and the Archaic, respectively. A third was site 14WO203, one of those 

 briefly tested by Johnson with three 5-foot test squares. The Howard 

 party dug three additional 5-foot test squares. Jolinson's identifica- 

 tion of this site was Kansas City Hopewell. The fourth was site 

 14WO209, to which Johnson had assigned a cultural designation of 

 Upper Republican, and witliin which Howard excavated two 5-foot 

 squares. The other three sites recommended by Johnson for further 

 work (14GR2, 14GR202, and 14GR212) were revisited in 1957, and 

 additional surface materials were collected, but the sites were not 

 considered of sufficient potential, at that time, to warrant excavation. 



In addition to revisiting these previously recorded sites, the 1957 

 party located, visited, and recorded 3 more sites in Greenwood County 

 ( 14GR219-221 ) and 18 more sites in Woodson County ( 14W0214-231 ) 

 to bring the final total of recorded sites in the Toronto Reservoir area 

 to 57. Only four of these new sites were of sufficient archeological 

 significance to warrant excavation or assignment of cultural affiliation, 

 though petroglyphs were recorded in two others (14W0225 and 

 14W0226). The four significant sites included 14W0215, in which 

 Howard excavated two 5-foot test squares; the Walleye Rockshelter 

 (14W0224), in wliich nearly the entire surface area (eleven 5-foot 



