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rarily at the beginning of the fiscal year because of lack of funds, was 

 reopened on September 10 and functioned until June 30, 1952. Edward 

 B. Jelks, acting field director, was in charge during that period. 



Field work in Texas consisted of surveys and excavations. Prelimi- 

 nary surveys and appraisals were made at the Colorado City Reservoir 

 on the Colorado River in Borden and Scurry Counties, at the Oak 

 Creek Reservoir in the same drainage in Coke County, at the Paint 

 Creek Reservoir on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Haskell 

 County, and at the Cooper Reservoir on the South Sulphur River in 

 Delta County. A total of 62 sites was found. In the Colorado City, 

 Oak Creek, and Paint Creek areas none of them appeared to be of 

 sufficient importance to warrant further investigations. At the Cooper 

 Reservoir, however, are a number of small mounds and several village 

 sites which give surface evidence of occupation by two cultural phases. 

 Six of the sites have been recommended for excavation. 



Excavations were carried on in three sites at the Belton Reservoir 

 on the Leon River in Coryell County. Some work had been done there 

 in a previous year, but the current digging added much new informa- 

 tion. Artifacts from the Caddoan area to the east were found in asso- 

 ciation with material from the Central Texas and Edwards Plateau 

 cultural aspects. Analysis of the specimens makes it possible, by 

 cross- dating, to place the Central Texas aspect in its proper place in 

 the relative chronology for Texas. 



In April, May, and June an excavating party investigated three 

 sites at the Texarkana Reservoir on the Sulphur River in Cass and 

 Bowie Counties. Adequate data were obtained to reconstruct the cul- 

 tural history of each. Twelve burials were found at one of the sites, 

 nine at another, and five at the third. The skeletal material will pro- 

 vide good information on the physical characteristics and possible 

 relationships of the people. When all the data from the excavations 

 have been studied and the report is completed a gap in the knowledge 

 of that Texas- Arkansas area will be filled. The results should have 

 an important bearing on the problem of Caddoan influences in the 

 eastern Texas region. 



Four survey reports were completed for mimeographing during the 

 year. A technical report, "Archeological Excavations at the Belton 

 Reservoir, Coryell County, Texas," by Edward B. Jelks and E. O. 

 Miller, has been completed and will be published this fall in the 

 Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society. A 

 general paper, "The River Basin Surveys Archeological Salvage Pro- 

 gram in Texas," was prepared by Edward B. Jelks for the Texas 

 Journal of Science. One technical report, completed the previous 

 year, "The Hogge Bridge Site and the Wylie Focus," by Robert L. 

 Stephenson, was published in American Antiquity, volume 17, No. 4, 

 4pril 1952. 



