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the other containing 7 rooms and a ceremonial chamber — a third 

 underground structure, and several courts were excavated. The 

 refuse mounds were trenched and 24 burials with accompanying 

 mortuary offerings were uncovered. A few timbers used as roof 

 beams in the structures were sufficiently preserved to make possible 

 their dating by means of dendrochronology. These show that the 

 village was built and occupied between 800 and 850 A. D. Specimens 

 collected include pottery; stone tools, bone implements and orna- 

 ments ; and some tiny beads made from shells, both red and white in 

 color, which make a string 37 feet 3^/2 inches in length, one of the 

 longest ever found in the Southwest. 



The autumn months were spent in office researches and routine. 

 Drawings were made to illustrate the report on the Arizona work. 

 Information was furnished in response to inquiries. Manuscripts 

 were written detailing various problems in southwestern archeology 

 and explaining the results of the Bureau's activities in that field. 



Dr. Eoberts left Washington December 16, 1933, for Pittsburg 

 Landing, Tenn., where he began work December 21, on a group of 

 mounds located on the old battlefield in Shiloh National Military 

 Park. The project was one of many sponsored by the C. W. A. and 

 provided for an extensive investigation. The work continued until 

 March 30, 1934. The site is located on a high bluff above the west 

 bank of the Tennesee River and lies between two deep ravines through 

 which flow tributary branches of the main stream. It consists of 7 

 large mounds, 6 domiciliary and 1 burial, and numerous low eleva- 

 tions which mark the places where dwellings once stood. To the west 

 of the area of occupation is an embankment, extending across the neck 

 of the bluff from one ravine to the other, indicating the former exist- 

 ence of a palisade which protected the community on that side. 



Dr. Roberts returned to Washington April 2, and from that time 

 until June 30 worked over material from the Southwest and from 

 Shiloh. 



On July 1, 1933, Dr. W. D. Strong, with the Smithsonian expedi- 

 tion in northeastern Honduras, was returning from a muleback and 

 airplane reconnaissance of the interior between Trujillo and Teguci- 

 galpa. The party returned to Trujillo on July 7, having located a 

 considerable number of important and hitherto unknown ruins of 

 Chorotegan type on the overland traverse. Collections were packed 

 and shipped from Puerto Castilla and Dr. Strong reported in 

 Washington July 18. 



From that date until December he was occupied in sorting and 

 classifying the Honduras ethnological and archeological collections 

 and commencing a report on the Bay Island reconnaissance. At the 



