290 TEANSACTIONS OP SECTION H. 



On the summit of a large hill in the vicinity of th« Yodda goldfield is : — 



Large mortar (which holds rain water and serves as a drinking place for 

 natives hunting in the vicinity). 



Between the Yodda goldfield and its coastal region, in the Giriwu river : — 

 Human image (hands crossed on stomach, and forehead retreating to a 

 point at the back of head — unshaped below the waist). 



And near the village of Gona on the coast of the Yodda region, in the vicinity 

 of the Giriwu mouth : — 



Fragments of ornamented pottery (unearthed). 

 In the vicinity of Rainu (Collingwood Bay) : — 



Fragments of ornamented pottery, obsidian objects, stone pestles, and 

 conus shells ornamented with incised designs (unearthed). 



The origin of the above objects is not known to existing inhabitants. 



On the South-east Coast, in the vicinity of the old Gibara (or Milne Bay) gold- 

 field, the following stone objects have been noted : — 



Stones J[with concentric circles chipped thereon). 

 Short standing stones (with markings thereon). 



Circles of stone sitting-places (in some of which cannibal feasts were 

 once held by present inhabitants). 



In hie book on the Megalithic Culture in Indonesia (1918) Mr. W. J. Perry 

 deals with the movements of a' stone-using people who evidently were acquainted 

 with gold-mining and who settled in districts where gold was found. These 

 people left, among other things, as a sign of their presence, terraced irrigation 

 and megalithic monuments. 



The evidence of the stone objects in Papua shows that this country also was 

 visited at some time by stone-using people who differed in many respects from 

 the present inhabitants. It would appear from the distribution of the objects 

 that theee stone-users had some interest in gold-bearing country ; such an 

 intense interest, in fact, that they penetrated the very, heart of the interior 

 and left their traces in the places some of which are the actual gold-workings of 

 the present day. Terraced irrigation has been noted in some of these districts. 



If the early stone-using people of Papua can be associated with the stone- 

 using immigrants of Indonesia we may reasonably suppose that the motive which 

 led them into the interior was gold-seeking, a similar motive to that which 

 induced the whites to penetrate the same country and overcome the tremendous 

 difficulties in the way. 



If this assumption is correct the earlj prospectors possibly searched for 

 quartz with the object of extracting the gold it contained by a process of 

 crushing, to which use the pestles and mortars would be adapted. 



Further investigation of this subject may help to clear up many of the 

 problems of the ethnology of Papua. 



2. Some Balkan Antiquities Found during the Period 1915-1919. 

 By Stanley Oasson, M.A. 



I. Macedonia. — Archspological discoveries in the Vardar, Struma, and Lan- 

 gaza valleys and on the Salonika littoral. 



(a) The prehistoric mounds of Macedonia ; their types and the pottery found 

 in them. Incised, pebble-polished and painted wares. Imported wares and 

 foreign influences. Stone and bone implements. 



(6) Prehistoric burials and cemeteries. The Aivasil and Lower Struma 

 burials. The Chauchitsa cemetery. 



(c) Classical town sites. 



i. Lete. 

 ii. Berga. 

 iii. Calindoea. 

 iv. Amphipolis 



V. Thessalonica. The Roman and Greek cemeteries of Thessalonica. 



