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possible the establisliment of an Agate Basin Complex. At two places 

 in the excavated area, objects found at a lower level indicated that 

 Folsom Man had at least visited the area prior to the occupation by 

 the makers of the Agate Basin type complex. One carbon- 14 date 

 obtained for the Agate Basin level indicates that the occupation was 

 at about 9,350±400 years before the present, and charcoal from the 

 Folsom level has given a date of 10,375d=700 years before the present. 

 This suggests that the basin was occupied at least at intervals over a 

 period of about 1,000 years. 



After returning to Washington from Wyoming, Dr. Roberts went 

 to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he represented the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and the United States at a conference on the origin and antiquity 

 of man in the New World. He made three speeches at the conference 

 and was elected one of the two vice presidents for the session. In 

 September he Avent to Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern 

 Colorado where he served as a member of the advisory group for the 

 Wetherill Mesa Project. In November he participated in the 19th 

 Plains Conference for Archeology at Lawton, Okla., and read a paper 

 on the 1961 excavations at the Agate Basin Site. Later he went to 

 Macon, Ga., as a member of an advisory group for a series of studies 

 to be carried on at Ocmulgee National Monument. Early in eJune he 

 visited the offices of the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin 

 Survey at Lincoln, Nebr., and assisted in sending out a number of 

 field parties for work in Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, and 

 Montana. 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his Eskimo studies 

 and other Arctic activities. The Russian translation program — An- 

 thropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources — which 

 he organized in 1960 continued its operation with the support of a 

 second year's grant from the National Science Foundation. The 

 second volume of translations. Studies in Siberian Ethnogenesis, 

 edited by Henry N. Michael, was published by the University of 

 Toronto Press for the Arctic Institute of North America in April 

 1962. This 313-page volume contains 17 articles by Soviet ethnolo- 

 gists, anthropologists, historians, and linguists on the origin and re- 

 lationships of the Yakut, Tungus, Buryat, Kirgiz, the Amur tribes, 

 and Samoyed and other ethnic groups of Siberia. Work is proceeding 

 on the translation and editing of additional volumes and papers on 

 Siberian archeology, ethnology, and physical anthropology selected by 

 the Arctic Institute's advisory committee, of which Dr. Collins is 

 chairman. 



Dr. Collins' article on Eskimo art appeared in volume 5 of the 

 Encyclopaedia of World Art. It traces the development of Eskimo 

 art from prehistoric to modem times and describes and illustrates the 



