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reservoir formed by it will inundate areas in both San Joaquin and 

 Stanislaus Counties. It would seem that in aboriginal times that 

 section was more suitable for occupation than it has been in recent 

 years because 24 sites were found there. Most of them are of the 

 surface variety, indicating seasonal occupation, but some have cultural 

 deposits with artifacts, bone, and shell occurring in some abundance. 

 All the artifacts are alike, both in types and material, and are of 

 particular interest because they consist in the main of crude core tools, 

 cores, and flake tools, with only a few blade fragments and no arrow- 

 heads. The material from which they were made occurs in the local 

 stream beds in the form of cobbles. Excavations in a number of the 

 sites are recommended for the purpose of obtaining information both 

 as to their probable position in the chronological sequence of the area 

 and as to their relationships. 



The New Melones Reservoir will fill a deep and narrow valley 

 formed by the Stanislaus River in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties. 

 The area is one in which there was considerable mining activity at 

 one time, and there is an existing reservoir which has modified the 

 surface of the ground to some degree. Consequently only four sites 

 were noted, despite the fact that the Northern Miwok once inhabited 

 the region, and no further archeological activities were recommended. 



Colorado, — ^Because of the physiographic character of the area in- 

 cluded within the pohtical boundaries of Colorado the numerous 

 projects there occur within the limits of several drainage systems. 

 Consequently some of the archeological investigations have been 

 conducted as a part of the Missouri Basin program, while others 

 have been carried on as separate units of the Surveys as a whole. 

 Only the latter are discussed in this section of the report. 



At the start of the fiscal year Donald Eastman and Gary L. Yundt, 

 field assistants, were continuing reconnaissance of the area involved 

 in the Taylor Lake Enlargement of the Gunnison-Arkansas project. 

 They completed this work on July 7, after having located only two 

 sites that will be covered by the waters of the larger lake resulting 

 from the construction of a new dam. The sites apparently were 

 former camps and only surface material was present. The latter, 

 however, is crude in character and suggests a much earlier cultural 

 horizon than that of the late nomads. Neither of the sites showed 

 sufficient depth to warrant excavation, and no further work is recom- 

 mended for that project. From Taylor Lake, Eastman and Yundt 

 proceeded to the Cimarron Damsite located on the Gunnison River 

 just below the confluence of the latter and the Cimarron. The area 

 to be flooded by this project had previously been siu'veyed in part 

 by the Chipeta Chapter of the Colorado Archeological Society, 

 Montrose, which made it possible for the Survey men to complete 



