SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 27 



National Park Service to conduct archeological excavations at the 

 site of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Md. 



Kichard P. Wheeler, archeologist, was at the Lincoln headquarters 

 throughout the year until June 20. During this period he spent his 

 time preparing technical reports on work completed in previous 

 years. He completed the final section of a draft of a lengthy, detailed 

 report on excavations conducted during 1949-51 in the Angostura 

 Reservoir area in South Dakota and the Boyson and Keyhole Reser- 

 voir areas in Wyoming. He also completed the draft of a technical 

 report on excavations in the Jamestown Reservoir area in North 

 Dakota. At the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology, in Lincoln, 

 he presented a preliminary statement on the Stutsman Focus, and a 

 paper, jointly with Harry E. Weakly, dealing with the cultural and 

 chronological sequences at Birdshead Cave, Wyo. A third paper pre- 

 sented at that meeting dealt with radiocarbon dates and prehistory in 

 the central and northern Plains. As previously mentioned, he col- 

 laborated with Charles H. McNutt in preparing a paper for submission 

 to American Antiquity. From April 30 to May 3 he attended the 

 annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology in Norman, 

 Okla. 



Snake River Basin. — No field explorations were carried on in the 

 Snake River Basin during the fiscal year. However, one report on 

 the investigations made there during the previous year was completed. 

 It is called "Archeological Salvage Investigations in the Hell's Canyon 

 Area, Snake River, Oregon and Idaho." The manuscript consists of 

 95 typed pages and has 8 plates and 6 text figures. The material and 

 information upon which the report is based were mainly from two 

 sites in the vicinity of Robinette, Oreg. Another report pertaining 

 to the excavations on the Idaho side of the river at Big Bar has not 

 yet been completed, but it is well under way. 



South Carolina- Georgia. — Excavations were made at two sites in 

 the Hart well Reservoir Basin during the period from April 22 to 

 June 21. One of them was located in South Carolina and the other 

 in Georgia. In addition, three other sites in the South Carolina area 

 were inspected and an extensive surface collection of artifacts was 

 made at one of them. Owing to the refusal of the owner to permit 

 digging, no attempt was made at the latter site to determine its depth 

 or the extent of its deposits. 



One of the sites where digging was carried on is located in the 

 fork created by the juncture of the Tugaloo and Chauga Rivers. The 

 site originally consisted of one large mound flanked on either side 

 by a low mound. During the last 10 to 12 years the large mound was 

 intentionally reduced in height in order to facilitate cultivation of 

 the field where it is situated. Consequently its present height of 

 12 feet above the level of the bottom lands does not represent its 



