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quarters of the Kiver Basin Surveys continued under the direction of 

 Dr. Frank H. H. Koberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, Joseph E, Caldwell, 

 and Ralph S. Solecki, archeologists, were based on that office, although 

 Caldwell and Solecki did not work full time for the Surveys. 



Kichard P. Wheeler was appointed archeologist on the staff on 

 August 27, and from that date until May 16 functioned under the 

 direction of the Washington office, although all his work was done in 

 the field. On May 16 he was transferred to the Missouri Basin 

 and from then until the close of the year was based on the Lincoln 

 headquarters. 



Mr. Miller spent most of the year in the office preparing reports 

 based upon material gathered in the field during the previous year, 

 and assisting the Director in reviewing the Hterature pertaining to 

 archeological manifestations occurring in areas where additional reser- 

 voir projects are proposed. His "Appraisal of the Archeological 

 Resources of the Clark Hill Reservoir Area, South CaroHna and Geor- 

 gia" was completed and mimeographed for distribution in December. 

 Another article, "Early Cultural Manifestations Exposed by the 

 Archeological Survey of the Buggs Island Reservoir in Southern 

 Virginia and Northern North Carolina," was pubHshed in the Journal 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 38, No. 2, December 



1948. A paper based on information obtained during the survey of 

 the Clark Hill Reservoir, "The Lake Spring Site, Columbia County, 

 Georgia," was to appear in American Antiquity, vol. 15, No. 1, July 



1949. Several others have been accepted for pubhcation elsewhere. 

 Mr. Miller made two trips to Clarksville, Va., in the late winter and 

 early spring, the first for the purpose of investigating unauthorized 

 pot-hunting activities in the Buggs Island Reservoir area, and the 

 second to speak before the Archeological Society of Virginia on the 

 problems of the Buggs Island archeological program. He also went 

 to Richmond, Va., where he spent 2 days at the Valentine Museum 

 examining manuscripts and other documentary materials pertaining 

 to early explorations and surveys in Virginia, northern North Carolina, 

 and eastern West Virginia in an effort to obtain further data bearing 

 on the aboriginal history of the Buggs Island area. 



In July and early August Mr. Caldwell collaborated with Mr. Miller 

 in working over the materials collected during the Clark Hill Reservoir 

 survey. During that period he prepared a paper, "The Rembert 

 Mounds, Elbert County, Georgia," based on new information obtained 

 at Clark Hill. Another article, "Palachacolas Town, Hampton 

 County, South Carolina," was printed in the Journal of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, vol. 38, No. 10, October 15, 1948. On August 

 19 Mr. Caldwell joined Dr. Robert E. Bell, of the University of Okla- 

 homa, at Wagoner, Okla., and began the excavation of a large mound 



