SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 5 



tion brought back to the Smithsonian Institution somewhat more than 

 a ton and a half of material for study and exhibit purposes. 



RIVER BASIN SURVEYS 



The Eiver Basin Surveys, in cooperation with the National Park 

 Service and the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the 

 Interior, the Corps of Engineers of the Department of the Army, and 

 various State and local institutions, continued its program for salvage 

 archeology in areas to be flooded or otherwise destroyed by the con- 

 struction of large dams. During the fiscal year 1957-58 the program 

 was financed by a transfer of $175,624 from the National Park Serv- 

 ice to the Smithsonian Institution. Of that amount $157,624 was 

 for use in the Missouri Basin and the remainder covered operations 

 in other areas. A carryover of $15,902 from the Missouri Basin 

 funds for the preceding fiscal year made the total available for the 

 Missouri Basin $173,526. The over-all total for the year was $191,526. 

 The amount of available money was somewhat larger than during 

 the previous fiscal year, and the increase was reflected in the work 

 accomplished. 



Field investigation during the year consisted mainly of excavations, 

 although some surveys were carried on in several areas. On June 1, 

 1957, nine parties were in the field. Four were doing intensive dig- 

 ging in the Great Bend Reservoir area and four were making ex- 

 cavations in the Oahe Reservoir area, both projects being located 

 in South Dakota. A survey party covered portions of the Big Bend 

 area, which had not been visited during the previous summer's work, 

 and carried on test operations in 14 sites. In September that party 

 moved to the Oahe Reservoir basin where it started similar oper- 

 ations. Most of the field parties had returned to their headquarters 

 by the end of September. Early in the spring a party conducted 

 excavations in the Dardanelle Reservoir area on the Arkansas River 

 in Arkansas. During the period February-June, a survey party 

 worked in three reservoir areas along the lower Chattahoochee River 

 in Alabama and Georgia, and in April-June another party excavated 

 in two sites in the Hartwell Reservoir area in South Carolina- 

 Georgia. At the end of the fiscal year nine parties were conducting 

 excavations along the Missouri River in South Dakota. Five were 

 working in the Great Bend Reservoir area and four in the Oahe 

 Reservoir Basin. 



By June 30, 1958, reservoir areas where archeological surveys and 

 excavations had been made since the salvage program got under way 

 in 1946 totaled 254 in 29 States. The survey parties have located 

 and recorded 4,889 archeological sites, and of that number 997 have 

 been recommended for excavation or limited testing. In general 



