SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT '5 



visited two reservoir basins located in one State. The intensive test 

 surveys were made in three reservoir areas in two States. At the end 

 of the fiscal year excavations were completed or were under way in 

 four reservoir basins in two States. During the course of the year 

 there were four excavating parties in the field, three of them in areas 

 where investigations had previously been made. By June 30, 1954, 

 areas where archeological surveys had been made or excavations 

 carried on since the start of the program in 1946 totaled 243 in 27 

 States. One lock project and four canal areas also have been investi- 

 gated. During the course of the work a total of 4,345 archeological 

 sites have been recorded and of that number 852 have been recom- 

 mended for excavation or further testing. Preliminary appraisal 

 reports were completed for all the reservoirs surveyed and further 

 supplemental reports have been prepared where additional reconnais- 

 sances have resulted in the discovery of further sites. During the 

 course of the year seven such reports were issued. The total number 

 distributed since the start of the program is 179. Where several 

 reservoirs form a unit in a single drainage subbasin, the information 

 on all was included in a single report. Consequently, the 179 mimeo- 

 gi'aphed pamphlets contain information on all the 243 reservoirs thus 

 far surveyed. Excavations carried on during the year brought the 

 total for reservoir projects where such investigations have been made 

 to 44 located in 17 different States. The total number of sites thus far 

 excavated or extensively tested totals 324. Fourteen manuscript re- 

 ports on previous excavation work were completed during the year and 

 are ready for publication. One major technical report was in final 

 page-proof form at the end of the fiscal year and will appear as Bureau 

 of American Ethnology Bulletin 158. In view of the necessary reduc- 

 tion in force because of lack of funds, no paleontological field work was 

 carried on during the year. The paleontologist who formerly was a 

 member of the Eiver Basin Surveys staff was lent by the National 

 Park Service for a period of three weeks to the Missouri Basin Project 

 of the Eiver Basin Surveys in order that he might complete the identi- 

 fication of specimens previously collected. 



The reservoir projects which have been surveyed for archeological 

 remains as of June 30, 1954, were distributed as follows : Alabama, 1 ; 

 California, 20; Colorado, 24; Georgia, 5; Idaho, 11; Illinois, 2; 

 Kansas, 10 ; Kentucky, 2 ; Louisiana, 2 ; Minnesota, 1 ; Mississippi, 1 ; 

 Montana, 15 ; Nebraska, 28 ; New Mexico, 1 ; North Dakota, 13 ; Ohio, 

 2; Oklahoma, 7; Oregon, 27; Pennsylvania, 2; South Dakota, 9; 

 Tennessee, 4; Texas, 19 ; Virginia, 2 ; Washington, 11 ; West Virginia, 

 2; and Wyoming, 22. 



Excavations have been made or were under way in reservoir basins 

 in: California, 5; Colorado, 1; Georgia, 4; Kansas, 3; Montana, 1; 

 Nebraska, 1 ; New Mexico, 1; North Dakota, 4; Oklahoma, 2; Oregon, 



