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first visit to Santo Domingo was in 1883. Investigations during 

 tho cunvnt your incliuled a reconnaissance of the mountainous inte- 

 rior of the provinces of La Vega, and of Azua, and actual excava- 

 tions at former Indian viUage sites in the valley of Constanza and 

 on the Caribbean coast at Andres, on the Bay of Andres, 25 miles 

 east of the capital city of Santo Domingo. There was no noteworthy 

 distinction between the artifacts recovered from middens at Con- 

 stanza and at Andres except for the lack of marine products such as 

 bones of fish and turtles, and shells of iiiollusks in tho middens of the 

 central mountains. Shell deposits on the Caribbean coast resemble 

 those found in caves in the province of Samana, and also those in- 

 cluded in the kitchen middens of Monte Cristi Province. Middens 

 throughout the Dominican Republic yield typically Arawakan objects 

 of great variety, ranging from the petaloid polished stone celt, dec- 

 orated pottery with incised and punctate designs, and molded figurine 

 heads of post-archaic tj'pe, to the beveled celt of Strombus gigas, 

 shallow undecorated earthenware bowls, crude beads of shell with 

 hour-glass-shape perforation, and other artifacts that in Cuba have 

 been designated as products of the " Ciboney." Frontal-occipital 

 (?eformation of skulls from cemeteries, fragments of stone collars, 

 and well-known types of Arawak zemis supply additional evidence 

 of the thorough penetration of the island by the Arawak and con- 

 versely tend to stress the lack of cultural stratigraphy or evidence 

 of the previous occupancy of the island by pre-Arawak tribes. 



From May 15 to September 23, 1929, N. M. Judd, curator of Amer- 

 ican archeology, was in Arizona supervising the Third Beam Expedi- 

 tion of the National Geographic Society. As a result of these inves- 

 tigations. Dr. A. E. Douglass, of the University of Arizona, was 

 able to complete his tree-ring chronology by establishing a single 

 series of annual growth rings in pine trees, extending from the year 

 1929 back to 700 A. D. Thus, with over 1,200 years represented, 

 some 40 pre-Spanish Pueblo villages of the Southwest have been 

 correlated with our own calendar — certainly the most outstanding 

 contribution to American archeology in the past quarter century. 

 Following his researches for the National Geographic Society, the 

 curator, at the suggestion of Senator Carl Haydcn, visited the Gila 

 and Salt River valleys, Ariz., to examine remaining vestiges of a 

 former network of prehistoric canals and to determine the most feas- 

 ible means of pre.serving a permanent record of them. On behalf 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Mr. Judd returned to Ari- 

 zona in mid-January to cooperate with Lieut. Edwin B. Bobzien and 

 Sergt. R. A. Stockwell, of the Army photographic personnel, in an 

 aerial survey of the major prehistoric canal systems bordering both 

 the Gila and Salt Rivers. The mosaic photographic maps made from 



