SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT : 17 



During February Richard P. Wheeler conferred with the District 

 Engineer at Chicago about the flood-control program for the Illinois 

 River Basin, discussed archeological problems involved with Dr. John 

 C. McGregor, associate professor of anthropology at the University of 

 Illinois, and with Dr. Kenneth G. Orr, assistant professor of anthro- 

 pology at the University of Chicago. March 10 to 18, Wheeler 

 checked the survey files of the Department of Anthropology and 

 worked in the Harper Library, at the University of Chicago. Leaving 

 Chicago he proceeded to Springfield, 111., where he conferred with 

 Dr. Thorne Deuel, Director of the Illinois State Museum. From 

 March 21 to 25 he made a reconnaissance of the Fondulac and Farm- 

 dale Reservoir basins, the dams then being built, on Farm Creek, in 

 Tazewell County, 111. No archeological sites were found in those 

 areas, and no further work was recommended. 



In April Wheeler prepared a preliminary report, "Archeological 

 Resources of the Proposed or Considered Reservoirs in the Illinois 

 River Basin, Central and Northern Illinois," which embodied a 

 synopsis of present knowledge of the archeology of this region and 

 provided a list of known sites (based on the site list prepared for the 

 River Basin Surveys in September 1947 by Dr. J. C. McGregor) in 

 10 of the 15 proposed reservoirs in the Illinois River Basin for which 

 maps are available. 



On May 16 Wheeler was transferred to the Missouri Basin, and his 

 activities from then until the end of the year are included in that 

 portion of the report. 



Iowa. — Work in Iowa was confined for the most part to surveys of 

 two reservoir basins and the area immediately adjacent to the dam 

 site of a third where preliminary construction activities were already 

 under way. 



Richard P. Wheeler spent the period December 6 to 10 at the Red 

 Rock Reservoir project, on the Des Moines River, and December 13 

 to 15 at the Rathbun Reservoir on the Chariton River. During the 

 progress of the work he consulted with Dr. Charles R. Keyes, Director 

 of the Archeological Survey of Iowa, about the character and extent 

 of the archeological remains in the two areas. In his reports prepared 

 at the conclusion of his field investigations, Wheeler records 15 mound 

 and occupation sites in the Red Rock basin, 4 of which will be involved 

 in the dam construction, and 6 in the Rathbun area. More intensive 

 studies under more favorable field conditions were recommended for 

 both reservoirs. 



Between January 24 and February 3, Wheeler made a preliminary 

 reconnaissance of the Coralville Reservoir, on the Iowa River, in 

 Johnson and Iowa Counties, Iowa. Eight mound sites and one 

 occupation site were located. Ten other sites, recorded prior to the 



