730 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 



The following Papers and Reports were read : — 



1. Archaeological Activities in the United States of America. 

 By Miss Alice C. Fletcher. 



This paper opened with a brief account of the foundation of the Peabody 

 Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, the first 

 institution in America founded for anthropological study, and recited its 

 activities during the current year. 



A short account of the Government's movements, which finally led to the 

 establishment of the Bureau of American Ethnology, its scope, and its work 

 in the past and at the present time, followed. 



The establishment of the Field Museum, Chicago. The extensive and valuable 

 contribution of the University of California. The Columbia University of New 

 York. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The Anthropological 

 Department of the Natural History Museum of New York City. The Brooklyn 

 Institute, New York. The South- West Museum, Los Angeles, California. The 

 Denver Museum, Colorado. The Academy of Sciences, Davenport, Iowa. The 

 founding of the Archaeological Institute of America; its schools at Athens, Rome, 

 and Jerusalem. The formation of the Committee on American Archaeology. 

 Development of interest in the American field among the various affiliated societies 

 of the institute. The unification of this interest by the appointment of Dr. 

 Edgar L. Hewett as director of American Archaeology. The establishment of 

 the School of American Archaeology authorised. The generous offer of the State 

 of New Mexico of the old ' Palace ' building, erected in 1608, at Santa Fe, for the 

 use of the school and its museum. The present field activities of the school in 

 the south-western parts of the United States and in Central America. The 

 advantages the school offers to research students. 



2. A Group of Prehistoric Sites in S.W. Asia Minor. 

 By A. M. Woodward, M.A., and H. A. Ormerod, B.A. 



In all nineteen prehistoric mounds were examined, extending from the plain 

 of Elmali (in North-East Lycia) to Lake Kestel, in Pisidia, and by way of Lake 

 Karalitis and the plain round Tefenni to Kara-Eyuk-bazar, at the foot of Kazyk- 

 Bel, in Southern Phrygia. The sherds found on the mounds consisted mainly 

 of a red, hand-polished ware assignable to the Bronze Age, with rarer fragments 

 of a black polished ware. Some of these sherds may possibly be of neolithic 

 origin. With these was found on certain sites a large quantity of painted frag- 

 ments, showing analogies on the one hand with Cappadocian pot-fabrics, and 

 again with those of the Early Cypriote Iron Age. This pottery would seem, 

 however, for the most part independent of iEgean influence or importation, and 

 fragments of obsidian obtained are apparently not of Melian origin. One of the 

 larger mounds at Tchai Kenari, partly excavated for brick-earth, provided a 

 rough sectional view of stratification to a depth of eight metres, with three super- 

 imposed floor-levels. On another mound a few miles to the west were the 

 remains of a megalithic house of rectangular plan, with an outer-walled court- 

 yard. This building is probably to be dated not earlier than the beginning of the 

 Iron Age. 



The full extent of this civilisation is not yet determined, and generalisation 

 would be premature ; it would appear, however, that it is not merely a south- 

 westerly extension of the prehistoric Cappadocian culture, but largely indepen- 

 dent of it. In view of the suggested equation Shakalasha = Sagalassi. it would 

 be interesting if these early settlements, traced hitherto to within a day's journey 

 of Sagalassus, should prove to be the home of the Shakalasha whose name 

 appears on the Merenptah inscription of the XVIIIth Dynasty. 



