ARCHEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ETC. 



No. 26. PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL, W. M. DAVIS, R. W. PUMPELLY, and ELLSWORTH 

 HUNTINGTON. Explorations In Turkestan, with an Account of the 

 Basin of Eastern Persia and Sistan. Expedition of 1903. Quarto. 

 (See page 57 for description.) 



No. 73. PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL, ct al. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 

 1904. Prehistoric Civilizations of Anau. In two volumes. Quarto, 

 xxxv 494 x pages, 97 plates, 548 figs. Published 1908. Price $10.00. 



Vol. i. Reports by RAPHAEL PUMPELLY and HUBERT SCHMIDT, with contributions 



by HOMER KIDDER, ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON, and F. A. GOOCH. Pages xxxv+ 



i-240 + vi, plates 1-60, and text figures 1-430. 

 Vol. 2. Reports of R. W. PUMPELLY and J. U. DUERST, with contributions by G. 



SERGI, TH. MOLLISON, H. C. SCHELLENBERG, and LANGDON WARNER. Pages 



x+24i-494+x, plates 61-97, figures 431-548. 



The object of the exploration was to search for evidence for or against the 

 Central Asiatic origin of earl}' cultures, with especial reference to the hypothesis of 

 a so-called Asiatic Aryan home. The volume of the Reconnaissance Expedition of 

 1903 contains the results of the separate expeditions of Prof. W. M. Davis, of 

 Harvard University ; of Mr. Ellsworth Huntington and of Professor Pumpelly and 

 Mr. R. W. Pumpelly. These results are chiefly : 



1. The corroboration and extension of the evidence of an extensive Glacial and 

 post-Glacial inland sea. 



2. The independent determination of at least three Glacial and two inter-Glacial 

 phases of the Glacial Period in the Tien Shan and on the Pamir. 



3. The observation of a vast number cf ruined sites of all ages, some of which 

 were evidently of a very remote age. 



The two volumes of 1904 treat of the archeological and physiographic results 

 of the Second Expedition, with especial reference to the excavations at Anau and 

 incidentally at Merv. The following reports are presented : 



Ancient Anau and the Oasis-World, and General Discussion of Results. By Raphael 

 Pumpelly. xxxv+8o pages, 6 plates, 21 figures. 



Archeological Excavations in Anau and Old Merv. By Hubert Schmidt. 127 pages, 

 50 plates, 408 figures. 



Note on the Occurrence of Glazed Ware in Afrosiab, and of Large Jars at Ghiaur 

 Kala. By Homer H. Kidder. 4 pages, 2 figures. 



Description of Kurgans of the Merv Oasis. By Ellsworth Huntington. 13 pp., 4 pi. 



Chemical Analyses of Metallic Implements from Anau. By F. A. Gooch. 



Physiography of Central-Asian Deserts and Oases. By R. Welles Pumpelly. 84 pages. 



Animal Remains from the Excavations in Anau, and the Horse of Anau in its Rela- 

 tion to the Races of Domestic Horses. By J. Ulrich Duerst. 100 nages, 20 plates. 



Description of some Skulls from North Kurgan, Anau. By G. Sergi. 2 pp., 2 pi. 



Some Human Remains found in North Kurgan, Anau. By Th. Mollison. 22 pp., 3 pi. 



Wheat and Barley from the North Kurgan, Anau. By H. C. Schellenberg. 4 pp., i pi. 



Stone Implements and Skeletons excavated in Anau. By Langdon Warner. 18 pp. 



In the expedition of 1904 two sites on the Oasis of Anau were excavated, expos- 

 ing four successive civilizations Anau I, II, III, IV, extending with breaks from 

 8000 B. C. to the beginning of our era, and aggregating over 130 feet of culture 

 strata and a later city of the period of known history. The archeologist, Dr. 

 Hubert Schmidt, of the Royal Museum fur Volkerkunde of Berlin, describes the 

 excavations and gives a critical description of the successive potteries and other 

 finds. Prof. J. Ulrich Dnerst, of the University of Berne, gives an extended com- 

 parative anatomical study of the abundant animal remains, collected foot by foot 

 from the lowest culture strata upward, of the two oldest civilizations. In these he 

 finds the beginning of domestication and the differentiation of breeds and origin 

 of some prehistoric European breeds. He also contributes a chapter on the desert 

 horse of Anau in its relation to the varieties of domestic horses. 



In the opening chapters of Volume I (1904) Professor Pumpelly, after tracing 

 the evolution of the environment that conditioned the prehistoric civilizations of 

 Anau, reviews the characteristics of the civilization and analyzes the results of 

 his own and his collaborators' investigations. By physiographic methods there 

 were obtained, through shafts in the oasis formation, a determination of the rate 

 of alluvial growth relatively to that of the accumulation of the debris of civilization 

 and evidence of three climatic cycles, paralleling the cultures, as well as their rela- 

 tion to the rise and fall of these. The rate of accumulation of debris of civilization 



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