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SUMMARY OF THE ARCHiEOLOGY OF lOW^A. 



BY FREDERICK STARR, PH. D. 



It is no^v several years since I planned the work of which this is a 

 part. As a student, in Iowa, of Iowa archaeology, I believed that a 

 systematic work carefully outlined might be carried out with profit. 

 As the plan shaped itself it comprised five separate pieces of work: 



(a) Preparation of a bibliography, that workers might know where to 

 look for the literature. 



(b) Publication of a summary, that those interested, who do not have 

 access to libraries, may know what has been done. 



{c) Organization of exploration in every part of the State; collection of 

 data, diagrams, plans; making of a working-map, showing the location of 

 mounds, shell-heaps, trails, village sites, etc. — in other \ioxAs,, field-ivork. 



{d) Publication of a final report of the work done under such organiza- 

 tion, and a separate publication of the map worked out by the exploration. 



{e) Preparation of a pamphlet of illustrations of "Iowa types" of archa;- 

 ological specimens and of a series of plaster copies and models of remark- 

 able specimens, mounds and the like, for distribution to universities, high 

 schools, colleges, and scientific and historical societies within the State. 

 This edticational work is the most important and significant part of the 

 whole plan, and can only be done well after the other parts have been 

 performed. 



How far this plan is to be realized remains to be seen. The Bibli- 

 ography has been printed; the Summary is here presented. By a wide 

 distribution of this through the State it is hoped that a body of helpers 

 and co-workers may be raised up to work under direction toward defi- 

 nite ends. Persons interested are urged to write to the Academy for 

 advice and for fuller statement of plans. 



Very many individuals have helped the author in the preparation of 

 the Bibliography and in this Summary both by criticism, supi)ly of 

 material, and by loan of prints; to all such we give thanks. 



The following corrections should be made in the Bibliography 

 (Proc. D. a. N. S., vi., pp. 1-24): 



In No. 16, for pp. 263-281 read pp. 265-281. 



[Proo. D. a. N. S., Vol. VI.] 7 [February 9, 1895.] 



