CONTRIBUTION S OP AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY 
TO HUMAN HISTORY 
By W* H. Holmes. 
(Read before the Congress of Americanists, Stuttgart, Germany, 
August 21, 1904)* 
Not wishing to weary the Congress with the reading 
of a lengthy paper I shall attempt to give the substance of 
what I would say in brief outline, but in "to beginning, as the 
representative of the Smithsonian Institution, I have the honor 
to present to the Congress a set of publications to be dis- 
posed of as it may deem expedient* These volumes, about sixty 
in number, are selections from the archeological publications 
of the Institution and two of its bureaus - the National Mu- 
seum and the Bureau of American Ethnology* They deal almost 
exclusively with the problems of primitive American history 
and prehistory and mainly with the aboriginal history of the 
extensive region now comprised within the United States. Most 
