10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Miller was in charge of an 

 excavating party in the Oahe Reservoir area, and his activities there 

 are described in the section of this report pertaining to the Missouri 

 Basin. After he returned to Washington in September, he prepared 

 a brief report on the results of the vfork in South Dakota and then 

 resumed writing on his unfinished report concerning investigations 

 previously made at the John H. Kerr (Buggs Island) Reservoir, Va. 

 In January he selected material from the collections made at the Clark 

 Hill Reservoir in Georgia and prepared an exhibit to be sent to the 

 office of the Corps of Engineers at the Clark Plill Dam in Georgia. 

 During the fall and winter months Mr. Miller gave talks before a 

 number of societies and school groups in the Washington area about 

 the work that he had done at Russell Cave in Alabama while on detail 

 to the regular Bureau of American Ethnology staff in the closing 

 months of the previous fiscal year. Early in Aj^ril he left for the 

 Warrior Lock and Dam Project area on the Black Warrior River in 

 Alabama and proceeded to carry on a preliminary survey to determine 

 if archeological materials would be involved in the construction at 

 that locality. He completed the survey on April 26, reporting that 

 no significant materials would be lost as a result of that project. On 

 April 27 Mr. Miller proceeded to Little Rock, Ark., for the purpose of 

 making a preliminary survey of the Greers Ferry Reservoir area, but 

 because of heavy rains and exceptionally high water in the area it was 

 necessary to postpone that investigation indefinitely. From Little 

 Rock he went to South Pittsburg, Tenn., to resume work at Russell 

 Cave. On May 6 he was again transferred from the River Basin 

 Surveys staff to the Bureau of American Ethnology for the period of 

 the Russell Cave investigation and at the end of the fiscal year was 

 still in that status. During the month of May Mr. Miller gave talks 

 on his work at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and at Birmingham, Ala. In June 

 he participated in a special televised educational program and spoke 

 before several societies in Tennessee and Alabama. 



Alabama. — A survey of the Warrior Lock and Dam Project was 

 made during April. No sites of importance were found in the area 

 to be flooded. However, a number of significant sites which merit 

 study under other than salvage auspices were discovered adjacent to 

 the pool area. 



Arkansas, — From Marcli 14 to April 20 a preliminary survey was 

 made of the Dardanelle Reservoir area on the Arkansas River. Fifty- 

 two sites were located and recorded and limited testing was recom- 

 mended for 23 of them. A preliminary appraisal report was com- 

 pleted in May. A proposed survey of the Greers Ferry Reservoir 

 area had to be postponed because of high waters. 



Georgia, — During the period October 25, 1956, to March 23, 1957, 

 in the Hartwell Reservoir area on the Savannah River, a large mound 



