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ograplied and distributed in October 1958. Since the start of the 

 Inter- Agency Archeological Salvage Program, 185 appraisal reports 

 have been issued. In a number of cases the information obtained 

 from several reservoir projects located within a single basin or sub- 

 basin have been combined in one report and for that reason there is 

 a discrepancy between the number of reservoirs surveyed and that of 

 the reports issued. 



At the end of the fiscal year, 434 sites in 54 reservoir basins located 

 in 19 different States had been either partially or extensively dug. 

 In some reservoir areas only a single site was excavated, while in 

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

 of site recommended by the preliminary surveys had been investi- 

 gated. Where some of the larger and more complex types of village 

 remains v/ere involved, it was necessary to dig a number of somewhat 

 similar sites in order to obtain full information about that particular 

 phase of aboriginal culture. The sites investigated represent cultural 

 complexes ranging from the early hunting peoples of approximately 

 10,000 years ago to early historic Indian village remains and frontier 

 trading and army posts of European origin. Reports on the results 

 obtained in some of the excavations have appeared in the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections, in Bulletins of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, and in various scientific journals. During the year Eiver 

 Basin Surveys Papers Nos. 9 through 14, comprising Bulletin 166 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, were published and dis- 

 tributed. The papers consist of three reports on excavations in the 

 Missouri Basin, one on digging in the Alatoona Reservoir in Georgia, 

 one on investigations in six sites in the Jim Woodruff Reservoir basin 

 in Florida, and one on historic sites in and adjacent to the Jim Wood- 

 ruff Reservoir area in Florida-Georgia. The Missouri Basin reports 

 were written by Paul L. Cooper, Robert B. Gumming, Jr., and Carlyle 

 S. Smith and Roger T. Grange, Jr. Those pertaining to the South- 

 east were prepared by William H. Sears, Mark F. Boyd, and Ripley 

 P. Bullen. River Basin Papers Nos. 15-21, which will constitute 

 Bulletin No. 176 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, were sent 

 to the printer in March. That series of papers pertains to studies 

 in historic sites in the Fort Randall, Oahe, and Garrison Reservoir 

 areas in South Dakota and J^ortli Dakota. Nine detailed technical 

 reports were completed during the year and are ready for publication 

 when the funds sufficient to cover their cost are available. In addi- 

 tion, the first and second drafts of seven technical reports were 

 finished. The final drafts should be ready early in the next fiscal year. 



As of June 30, 1959, the distribution of the reservoir projects that 

 had been surveyed for archeological remains was as follows: Ala- 

 bama, 4 ; Arkansas, 1 ; California, 20 ; Colorado, 24 ; Georgia, 8 ; Idaho, 



