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Additional Information on the Folsom Complex : Eeport on the Sec- 

 ond Season's Investigations at the Lindenmeier Site in Northern 

 Colorado, was issued on June 30 as Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, vol. 95, no. 10. 



Dr. Roberts left Washington June 1 for Anderson, Iowa, to inspect 

 a site where Folsom points and other material had been found. This 

 proved to be a highly interesting place, as it marks the easternmost 

 locality that the true or High Plains form of the Folsom point has 

 been noted. While in Iowa he saw and studied numerous collections 

 of specimens and found evidence of the Folsom complex at a number 

 of sites. From Iowa he proceeded to Colorado, where he resumed 

 excavations at the Lindenmeier site. By the end of the year, June 30, 

 several trenches had been run through portions of the site and an area 

 20 by 30 feet had been completely cleared of the several feet of accu- 

 mulated earth which had covered it. This area consisted of an old 

 occupation level upon which the traces of Folsom man and his activ- 

 ities w^ere numerous. 



From July 1935 to January 1936 Dr. W. D. Strong, anthropologist, 

 served as consultant in anthropology to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

 In addition to office work in relation to numerous acculturation studies 

 being made on various Indian reservations of the United States, Dr. 

 Strong made two field trips to various reservations and administrative 

 centers in New Mexico and Arizona in August and December, respec- 

 tively. In November a trip of several ^veeks was made to the Chip- 

 pewa reservations in Minnesota to advise on problems of tribal reor- 

 ganization. On January 5, 1936, Dr. Strong left Washington for 

 Honduras as leader of a joint archeological expedition from the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, and the 

 Peabody Museum, Harvard University. He was assisted in the field 

 by Alfred Kidder, II, and Drexel A. Paul, Jr., from the Peabody 

 Museum. Establishing its base at Progreso, in the Ulua Valley, the 

 expedition made stratigraphic excavations at several sites on the Ulua 

 River. In March and April Dr. Strong, with Mr. Paul, conducted 

 excavations around the north end of Lake Yojoa, while Mr. Kidder 

 worked on the Comayagua River. In May and June the entire expe- 

 dition worked sites on the Chemelicon River, including the site of 

 Naco, first visited by Cortez and the early Spanish Conquistadores. 



On the Ulua River excellent stratigraphic series were secured of 

 the prehistoric polychrome pottery horizons. At Playa de los Muer- 

 tos, on the Ulua, these horizons, corresponding roughly to the close of 

 the Maya Old Empire, were found to overlay a much earlier living 

 level marked by monochrome, polished, and incised pottery. 



The work of the expedition approached conclusion in June, and on 

 June 30 preparations for departure began. Throughout its entire 

 work the expedition received cordial cooperation and assistance from 



