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ment of implements. The collection of specimens of the people's 

 handicraft obtained from the season's excavations comprises, in addi- 

 tion to typically fluted points and a series of tools similar to those 

 found in previous years, several new types of stone knives and scrap- 

 ers and a number of bone fragments bearing portions of simple, in- 

 cised, geometric decorations. This material serves to broaden the 

 knowledge on the material culture complex characteristic of this 

 group of early American peoples. The digging also produced im- 

 portant evidence on the relation between the occupation level and 

 certain geologic deposits and helped confirm the correlation of the 

 site with definite features dating from the late glacial horizon in that 

 general area. 



After the termination of the work at the Lindenmeier site. Dr. 

 Roberts visited places in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Saskatchewan, 

 Canada, where local collectors have found objects attributable to the 

 Folsom or some other, presumably associated, complex. The sites in 

 Nebraska are in the southwestern corner of the State in Chase and 

 Dundy Counties. The locations inspected in Wyoming are in the 

 northeastern part of the State in the vicinity of Sundance. The 

 Saskatchewan sites are near Mortlach and are of interest because they 

 extend the range of this type of material well toward the north along 

 the postulated route of migration of peoples coming from Asia into 

 (he New World. From Mortlach, Dr. Roberts returned to Washing- 

 ton and resumed his office duties on November 1. 



During the winter months galley and page proofs were read and 

 corrected for the report, Archeological Remains in the Whitewater 

 District, Eastern Arizona, Part I, House Types, which appeared as 

 Bulletin 121 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Manuscript for 

 the second part of this report, describing the artifacts and burials asso- 

 ciated with the house remains, was revised, completed, and transmitted 

 to the editor for publication in the bulletin series. An article, The 

 Folsom Problem in American Archeology, which appeared in the 

 book Early Man, as depicted by leading authorities at the Inter- 

 national Symposium at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, March 1937, was revised, augmented with new information 

 and a series of illustrations, and otherwise made suitable for use in the 

 appendix to the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for 1938. In addition several short papers on 

 archeological subjects were written for various anthropological jour- 

 nals. Information on Old World archeology was furnished for a 

 radio broadcast on the subject Pushing Back History, and this and 

 several other scripts for "The World is Yours" program were read and 

 checked for errors. 



