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squares) was excavated; and the Possum Point site (14W0228), in 

 which he excavated six 5-foot squares. The present report will detail 

 the work done by Howard's party in the eight excavated sites and the 

 two petroglyph sites mentioned above. 



The work of Edward H. Moorman in the 1953 season was done 

 under the supervision of Dr. Erik K. Reed and Charlie R. Steen of 

 the Region 3 office of the National Park Service, Santa Fe, N. 

 Mex., under whose jurisdiction the southern Kansas area was ad- 

 ministered at that time. The work of Alfred E. Johnson and his party 

 in 1956, and that of Dr. James H. Howard and his party in 1957, was 

 done under the administrative supervision of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, 

 Jr., Director of the River Basin Surveys, and Dr. Robert L. Stephen- 

 son, Chief of the Missouri Basin Project. The Toronto Reservoir 

 is situated outside the Missouri Drainage Basin, and funds for the 

 work were transferred by the National Park Service from the appro- 

 priations for work outside the Basin. For purposes of convenience 

 and economy, the work was administered through the Missouri Basin 

 Project office of the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, 

 in Lincoln, Nebr. 



Assisting Johnson in the field were Wayne O. Wallace and Gay- 

 lord S. Tefft. Tefft and Richard Fischer assisted Johnson in his 

 laboratory analyses, and Sidney Anderson identified the animal bones. 

 All five were students at the University of Kansas, where Dr. Carlyle 

 S. Smith kindly made laboratory facilities available to Jolinson. 

 Assisting Dr. Howard in the field were Edward A. Danaczko, D. Wil- 

 liam Chatfield, August Love, and Joseph Marshno, employed by the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the project. The regular staff of the 

 Missouri Basin Project in Lincoln assisted Howard in his laboratory 

 analyses and preparation of this report. Others who assisted in a 

 number of ways in the archeological salvage in the Toronto Reservoir 

 area include George Fritz, Mark Sample, George Phillips, Albert 

 Webb, George Webb, Frank J. Adenauer, J. E. Sower, H. W. Pashe, 

 and Fred Jamison, all of Toronto, Kans. ; Richard Phillips and Lester 

 Harding of Yates Center, Kans., and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Landes 

 and Mrs. James H. Howard of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Lloyd Tanner 

 of the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln identified the 

 bone materials from the 1957 excavations. Sincere thanks are ex- 

 pressed to all of these people for their generous assistance, without 

 which the work would have been much less pleasant and rewarding. 



THE SITES 



The 57 archeological sites recorded in the Toronto Reservoir are 

 located on the reservoir map (fig. 59) and tabulated in the Appendix. 

 Jolmson (1957) has described and identified some of these sites, and 



