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in the Bull Shoals, Clearwater, Pomme de Terre, Joanna, Table Rock, 

 and Waco Reservoirs, and carried on excavations in key sites at Bull 

 Shoals and Clearwater. The University of Oklahoma did some exca- 

 vation work in a village site which will be flooded by the Fort. Gibson 

 Reservoir on the Grand (Neosho) River. The University of Kansas 

 did survey work and started excavations at a village site in the Kanap- 

 olis River basin on the Smoky Hill River in Kansas. In Nebraska the 

 State Historical Society carried on excavations at archeological sites 

 in the Medicine Creek Reservoir area outside the Federally acquired 

 lands adding important supplemental information on remains beyond 

 the localities being worked by the River Basin Surveys. The Lab- 

 oratory of Anthropology of the University of Nebraska excavated in 

 two important sites in the Harlan County Reservoir area on the Re- 

 publican River in the southern part of the State. The University of 

 Nebraska State Museum carried on paleontological work near the 

 Medicine Creek Dam site and on Lime Creek, a tributary of Medicine 

 Creek, where important information was obtained on some of the earli- 

 est cultural remains thus far found in North America. The Museum 

 also collected paleontological material from the Harlan County Reser- 

 voir. The University of North Dakota, in cooperation with the 

 North Dakota Historical Society, carried on excavations at the Heart 

 Butte Reservoir, on the Heart River, in the summer of 1947, and at 

 the Baldhill Reservoir on the Sheyenne River beginning June 21, 

 1948. The University of Colorado made a preliminary reconnais- 

 sance of the 8 reservoir areas comprising the Colorado-Big Thompson 

 project, while the University of Denver made brief surveys of 12 reser- 

 voir basins comprising the Blue-South Platte project. Western 

 State College of Colorado did preliminary work in nine reservoir 

 basins of the Gunnison- Arkansas project. The Museum of Northern 

 Arizona, at Flagstaff, assumed responsibility for surveys at the Alamo 

 project on Williams River in the western part of the State, but had 

 not started investigations at the end of the year. The Archeological 

 Surveys Association of Southern California, sponsored by a number 

 of museums in that area, completed surveys in eight proposed reservoir 

 and flood-control projects in that portion of the State. The Univer- 

 sity of California, at Berkeley, took over responsibility for the exca- 

 vation of key sites located by the River Basin Surveys in the Pine 

 Flat Reservoir on King's River and in the Isabella Reservoir on Kern 

 River. Actual operations had not yet gotten under way, however, 

 by June 30. 



Progress reports and completed reports prepared by the cooperat- 

 ing organizations are sent to the River Basin Surveys so that the 

 results of their investigations may be coordinated with the over-all 



