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the Eoanoke Kiver in southern Virginia where its Smith Mountain 

 Project is underway. The funds from the National Park Service 

 provided $204,500 for the Missouri Basin and $27,205 for the Chatta- 

 hoochee Project. A carryover of $7,734 in the Missouri Basin made 

 the total for that area $212,234. The grand total of funds available 

 in 1961-62 for the Eiver Basin Surveys was $241,439. 



Investigations in the field consisted of surveys and excavations. 

 Most of the efforts were concentrated in the digging of sites, but sur- 

 veys were made in three new reservoir basins and two watershed proj- 

 ect areas. Also, at the end of the year a survey was underway in the 

 Missouri Eiver area in Montana, locally known as the Missouri Breaks, 

 which is to be set aside as the Lewis and Clark National Wilderness 

 Waterway. Two of the new reservoirs were in Virginia and one in 

 Nebraska. One of the watershed projects was also in Nebraska and the 

 other was in Iowa. At the beginning of the fiscal year three parties 

 were in the field in the Missouri Basin. A fourth began operations 

 in that area in August, and another party resumed investigations 

 along the Chattahoochee Eiver during the same period. At the end 

 of April a party returned to the Chattahoochee area and started fur- 

 ther excavations in the Walter F. George Eeservoir Basin. In May 

 two small parties were at work in Nebraska, one in South Dakota, and 

 one in Iowa. In June 11 parties moved into the Missouri Basin ; one 

 of them was working in Kansas, seven were in South Dakota, one 

 was in Wyoming, one was in Wyoming-Montana, and one in Montana. 

 With the exception of the one in Alabama-Georgia, which terminated 

 its activities on June 30, all these parties were continuing their investi- 

 gations at the close of the fiscal year. 



As of June 30, 1962, reservoir areas where archeological surveys and 

 excavations had been made since the start of the salvage program 

 totaled 258, located in 29 States. In addition, two lock projects, four 

 canal areas, and two watershed areas had been examined. During the 

 years since the program got underway, 4,979 sites have been located 

 and recorded, and of that number 1,171 were recommended for exca- 

 vation or limited testing. Because complete excavation is rarely 

 possible, except in the case of a few small sites, the term "excavation" 

 implies digging approximately 10 percent of a site. With the excep- 

 tion of those where the work was done during the past year, prelimi- 

 nary appraisal reports have been issued for most of the areas surveyed 

 and, in cases where additional reconnaissance has resulted in the dis- 

 covery of other sites, supplemental reports have been prepared. IVhere 

 no archeological manifestations were noted or where they were too 

 meager to be of import, no general report was issued. Manuscripts 

 have been completed for two of the surveys made last year, and they 

 probably will be issued sometime during the coming fiscal year. 



