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Valle (Santander). The baton from El Pendo was found in the 

 Upper Magdalenian level. 



Creswell Crags. — From England, poor in Paleolithic art, Leslie 

 Armstrong reports the finding in a proto-Solutrean horizon of one 

 of the eaves at Creswell Crags (Derbyshire) the figure of a man 

 Avearing an animal mask, engraved on reindeer bone. 



Jordansviilhl. — I can not close this report of progress without 

 mention of at least a few recent discoveries of post-Paleolithic date. 

 There have been many, out of which Jordansmiihl (Silesia) should 

 be first considered. The name is well known in prehistory through 

 discoveries made at the Neolithic and Chalcolithic camp site on 

 Bischkowitz hill. In the vicinity of Jordansmiihl (west side) are a 

 number of sites dating from the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as 

 from the Neolithic. 



The Jordansmiihl ceramic type is distinct from all others. The 

 paste is free from coarse material, the walls of the vessels are thick. 

 The color is dark brown to iron gray. Other types than the Jor- 

 dansmiihl are found in the vicinity. 



In 1925 a clay figure of a ram was found in a sand pit on the 

 Klose farm west of Jordansmiihl. With it were two clay vessels 

 and a broken flint knife. Although somewhat weathered the figure 

 of the ram has been restored. Its total height is 33 cm., body height 

 23.5 cm., and length 37 cm. The rugosity of the massive horns is 

 well represented by means of transverse string imprints. The neck 

 and body also bear string imprints. This is a splendid example in 

 clay pf the Neolithic potter's art. 



Neolithic art in China. — The East India Museum of Stockholm 

 has recently come into possession of a ceramic piece dating from 

 the Neolithic Period in China, which is of more than passing interest. 

 It is the lid of a vessel in the form of a human head, neck, and bust. 

 The facial region rises slightly from the spherical head. The chin, 

 nose, and cheek protuberances are perforated; the eyes and mouth 

 are simply oval holes. The brows are prominent. Above and back 

 of the brows there is a pair of pitted protuberances. Beginning 

 at the crown and meandering gracefully down the back of the head 

 and neck onto the bust there is a figure suggesting a Chinese pigtail, 

 but instead it is a serpent, the head (with open mouth) of which 

 rises above the pair of protuberances. Nothing like this has been 

 found in western Asia or southeastern Europe. 



Iberian ceramic art. — An idea of the excellence of the potter's 

 art in the Iberian Peninsula some 400 B. C. may be had from a 

 study of the Heiss collection, recently published in part by Hugo 

 Obermaier and Carl Walter Heiss. The necropolis from which this 

 collection came is in the region of Archena (Prov. Murcia), south- 

 eastern Spain. The paste is a fine reddish yellow clay, the orna- 



