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result some 4,346 sites have been located and recorded. Of that num- 

 ber 852 were recommended for excavation or limited testing. Pre- 

 liminary appraisal reports were completed for all the reservoirs 

 surveyed, and where additional reconnaissance has resulted in the 

 discovery of other sites supplemental reports have been prepared. 

 During the course of the year one such report was issued. Since the 

 start of the program 180 reports have been distributed. The dif- 

 ference between that figure and the total number of reservoir areas 

 investigated is in part due to the fact that where several reservoirs 

 form a unit in a single subbasin they are included in one report. 



At the end of the fiscal year 324 sites in 44 reservoir basins located 

 in 17 different States had been dug either extensively or in part. In 

 some of the reservoir areas only a single site was excavated while in 

 others a whole series was examined. At least one example of each 

 type of site found in the preliminary surveys has been investigated. 

 In previous years the results of certain phases of that work appeared 

 in technical journals and in Bulletin 154 of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. Six manuscript reports on earlier excavation work were 

 completed during the present year and are ready for publication. One 

 major technical report was issued in December as Bulletin 158 of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, and a summary statement of the 

 program in the Missouri Basin for the years 1950-51 appeared in 

 April 1955 in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 



The reservoir projects that have been surveyed for archeological 

 remains as of June 30, 1955, 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 ; Ten- 

 nessee, 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, 

 3 ; South Carolina, 1 ; South Dakota, 3 ; Texas, 7 ; Virginia, 1 ; Wash- 

 ington, 4; West Virginia, 1 ; and Wyoming, 2. The foregoing figures 

 include only the work of the River Basin Surveys or that in which 

 there was direct cooperation with local institutions. Projects that 

 were carried on by local institutions under agreements with the Na- 

 tional Park Service are not included because complete information 

 about them is not available. 



Throughout the year the National Park Service, Bureau of Eecla- 

 mation, Corps of Engineers, and various State and local institutions 

 continued to provide helpful cooperation in the Inter- Agency Salvage 



