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Neolithic of France and Italy (Campignian), of Scandinavia (Erte- 

 b0lle), and of Central Africa and India, the Neolithic of western, 

 northern, and Alpine Europe, of North Africa, Indo-China, Ja 

 and Siberia, and the later Sumerian-Bab3donian. 



Five charts tracing the correlation between cultural and geo- 

 logical events in the Old World, 5 illustrations for the synoptic 

 series, 13 maps showing cultural distributions, and 6 maps depicting 

 the range of glacial advance and retreat were prepared and in- 

 corporated in the exhibits. 



Study collections of the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods were 

 reclassified and the accompanying records corrected wherever neces- 

 sary to include new information. These have also been regrouped 

 into cultural-geographical series, so that students may examine the 

 material with greater ease and effectiveness. The collection from 

 Casa Grande, southern Arizona, secured early in the present century 

 by the late Jesse Walter Fewkes, was reexamined, and the exhibit 

 illustrating the material culture of this famous ruin was greatly 

 improved. 



In the division of physical anthropology a temporary exhibit 

 of 6 cases was arranged from the newly recovered Alaska (Kodiak 

 Island) materials, and 3 cases of new exhibits were added to the 

 permanent display. A case of exhibits prepared for the National 

 Academy of Sciences meeting in April remained for 2 weeks on view 

 in the academy. Two cases of exhibits were prepared for the meet- 

 ing of the American Surgical Association. 



INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 



In ethnology, Henry B. Collins, Jr., continued the study of Eskimo 

 archeology, particularly on materials collected by himself, J. A. 

 Ford, and M. B. Chambers. For several years the Smithsonian 

 Institution has conducted archeological studies along the west 

 Alaskan coast, to obtain data on the chronological sequence of 

 certain early phases of Esldmo culture. During this year and 

 last the scene has been shifted to the north Alaska coast in the 

 vicinity of Point Barrow. Here the problem involved concerns the 

 historical sequence of Punuk and Thule phases of Esldmo culture. 

 James A. Ford spent the winter of 1931-32 at Point Barrow on the 

 Arctic coast and devoted the following summer to excavating at 

 several old Esldmo sites in the region. Point Barrow has for some 

 time been recognized as one of the most important places archeo- 

 logically in Alaska, since it was the westernmost limit of the extinct 

 Thule culture, which centered in northern Canada, and also the most 

 eastward point to which the Old Bering Sea culture extended. Mr. 

 Ford's excavations were the first of a systematic nature to be car- 



