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The paper is clearly illustrated. [Am. Anthrop., Washington, vi, 

 1-14. 



The JouDKil of Gcokxji/, liublished in Chicago, No. 1, January-Feb- 

 ruary, 1893, will have a department of archieologic geology, under the 

 direction of Prof. William II. Holmes. Already papers on archaeology 

 have ai)peared. 



Comparative study slowly unravels the tangle of American archieology 

 and ethnology. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes witnessed and became familiar 

 with the snake dance of the IIoi)i (Moki) Indians, and in studying the 

 old writers, Sahaguu in i)articular, was struck with the wonderful simi- 

 larity of the Mexican pictures to the real dances in Arizona. This, with 

 the co-operation of Dr. Ed. Seler, Dr. Fewkes has worked out in the 

 American Anthropologist. (Washington, vi, 280-300.) 



American arclneology was greatly enriched by the pubbcation of a 

 folio volume on the ruins of Tiahuanuco in the highlands of ancient 

 Peru. The work consists of two parts, tlie text and 42 photolitho- 

 graphic plates. By means of maps, illustrations in the text, ground 

 plans and sketches, the authors have placed thems(dves entirely at the 

 service of the student. This work is of the same excellent character 

 as the Necropolis of Ancon, issued by Reiss and Stiibel a few years 

 since. The authors discuss the ethnic origin of the sculptures, the 

 material, the dimensions of the blocks (weighing as much as 150 tons), 

 the means of transport for many miles and across several inlets of 

 LakeTiticaca; the skill in dressing, smoothing and polishing, and carv- 

 ing, with implements not much harder than the stone itself. 



A great shock was given to European arch.eology by attacks upon the 

 age of the Canstatt and the Neanderthal skull. It is well known Ihat 

 Prof. De Quatrefages went so far as to claim a Canstatt and a Neander- 

 thal race for early Europe. In the report of the German Aiitliroi)o- 

 logical Congress it was shown that the tirst-named skull was found 

 associated with Koman pottery, and the last-named was picked up on 

 the surface. At the same conference Prof. Virchow indorsed the 

 opinion of Steenstru]) that the evidence of contemporaneity of man 

 and mammoth in Europe is not only iuadefjuate, but for dimatic and 

 geologic reasons no such co-existence was possible. 



Oscar Montelius began the publication of his great w^ork, Jm civilisa- 

 tion lyrimitive en Italic depuis V introduction du ntetal, upon which he has 

 labored for twenty years. It will be an album of 300 plates grand 4to, 

 with more than 3,500 woodcuts and explanatory text. His volume 

 upon the history of tlie influence of Orientalism upon Europe during 

 the Stone Age, the P>roiize Age, and the Iron Age till about 500 u. c. 

 is his Civilization of Hiccdcn in Heathen Times in new form, done into 

 French by Salomon Reiuach. 



The number of Nature for August 10 contains the account of a suit 

 for libel brought by H. Rassam against Dr. Budge of the British 

 Museum growing out of assertions alleged to have been made by the 



