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wall and entered through two gateways. The houses, divided by streets and alleys, 
are long and narrow, and one example shews the Degaron type already developed. _ 
Semi-apsidal houses are not uncommon. 
Whereas town V has been completely uncovered, towns I-IV have been, so far, 
only partially explored. No. III is characterised by bothroi, allied to those found 
in an Early Helladic context in mainland Greece: Nos. Il and I, differently oriented 
to their successors, show slight traces of Cycladic influence and produce a few Cycladic 
imports. There is, however, no change of culture within the settlement. 
The finds include pottery, terra-cotta figurines, bone, stone andcopperimplements 
but no trace of bronze. 
Mr. W. A. Heurtitey.—An Harly Bronze Age Site in Western Macedonia. 
This year’s excavations in Macedonia by the British School at Athens has just 
been concluded. A site in Western Macedonia was chosen, at the village of Armeno- j 
chori, near Florina, some twenty kilometres south of the Greek-Jugo-Slay frontier. 4 
The narrow valley (2,000 ft. above sea-level) is here watered by numerous tributaries 
running northward to the Tserna River, on one-of which the site lies. 
The excavations revealed a deposit of an average depth of two metres, containing 
two occupation levels. Both belong to the Early Macedonian Bronze Age culture, 
which is known from previous excavations by the School in other parts of Macedonia, 
to have flourished about 2500-2000 B.c., and to have been the counterpart of the 
Early Helladic culture further South, both iets probably of Anatolian origin and 
developing on roughly parallel lines. 
At Armenochori, the two levels cepleont. the two phases of this culture, the 
earlier being imposed upon an indigenous Neolithic culture (of which numerous 
elements were found associated with it), the latter being a development of the earlier. 
In the upper level were found some thirty complete vases, each with two high- 
swung, ribbon-shaped handles, a form which was to have great vogue in the succeeding 
period in the South, and throughout the subsequent history of Greek pottery. Its 
discovery in such quantity in this early context at Armenochori is thus of unusual 
interest. 
Besides these vases, a large quantity of coarse cooking-vessels was found, some 
bored stone celts, small stone saws, and other stone objects, all proper to this culture, 
as wellas a remarkable clay figurine. Except for the Neolithic sherds, and one incised 
sherd, no obvious contacts with more northern cultures were observed. 
After the conclusion of the excavation a short excursion was made into Jugo- 
Slavia to the region between Bitolj and Prilep, where similar mounds had been 
reported. About twenty kilometres north of Bitolj, a settlement belonging to the 
same culture was identified. 
It will be the object of future excavation to define the limits of this culture in 
this direction, and its relation to the Gradaé-Vinéa culture. 
Dr. Vassitz.—The Vinca Site. 
Miss D, A. E. Garrov.—Excavations at the Wady al-Mughara in 1931. 
Excavations in the caves of the Wady al-Mughara, Mt. Carmel, are being under- 
taken by the British School of Archeology in Jerusalem in collaboration with the 
American School of Prehistoric Research. In 1931 work was carried out on three 
sites :— 
1. Mugharet al-Wad (Cave of the Valley). This is the largest of the group, and | 
the interior was excavated in 1929 and 1930. This year work was confined to the 
Mesolithic deposit on the platform of the cave. Two phases of the Mesolithic industry 
of Palestine were identified, and these have been named Upper and Lower Natufian. 
In the Lower Natufian was found a group of burials with head-dresses and other 
ornaments made up of dentalium shells and bone pendants, in place on the skeletons. 
At the base of the deposit was a wall of rough blocks of limestone resting on the — 
bedrock ; this curved outward from the levelled area and rock-cut basins found last 
year, and evidently formed part of the same group of ‘ works.’ 
2. Mugharet as-School (Cave of the Kids).—A small rock-shelter containing a 
single atchzological deposit of Mousterian age. Towards the base of this deposit 
the skeleton of a young child was found in an intensely hard breccia accompanied 
by typical Mousterian implements. 
