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Volume 21 - Issue 4 - April 1956

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Radiocarbon Dating. Willard F. Libby. With chapter by Frederick Johnson. 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1955. ix + 175 pp., 11 figs., 7 tables. $4.50.

4,000 Years Under the Sea. The Story of Marine Archaeology. Philippe Diolé. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. Julian Messner, New York, 1954. xiv + 237 pp., 3 figs., 16 pls., 1 map. $4.50.

Stone-Worker's Progress: A Study of Stone Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Francis H. S. Knowlls, Pitt Rivers Museum, Occasional Papers on Technology, No. 6, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1953. 120 pp., 24 figs. 15s.

The Disposal of the Dead. C. J. Polson, R. P. Brittain, and T. K. Marshall. Philosophical Library, New York, 1953. xii+300 pp. $7.50.

Basic Readings on the Identification of Human Skeletons Estimation of Age. Edited by T. D. Stewart and Mildred Trotter. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, 1954. iv + 347 pp., 66 illus., 84 tables, 40 charts.

Prehistoric Europe: The Economic Basis. J. G. D. Clark. Philosophical Library, New York, 1952. xix + 349 pp., 180 figs., 16 pls., 2 tables. $12.00

The Sobaipuri Indians of the Upper San Pedro River Valley, Southeastern Arizona. Charles C. DI PESO. With the collaboration of Arthur Woodward and Rex E. and M. Virginia Gerald. The Amerind Foundation, No. 6, Dragoon, 1953. xii + 285 pp., 34 figs., 92 pls. $7.50.

The jaketown Site in West-Central Mississippi. James A. Ford, Philip Phillips, and William G. Haag. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 45, Pt. 1, New York, 1955. 164 pp., 57 figs., 8 pls., 15 tables. $3.00.

Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States. Edited by James B. Griffin. University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, 1950-1954. Issued in parts. Illus. $2.50 (to date, by subscription).

A Ceramic Study of Virginia Archeology. Clifford Evans. With Appendix by C. G. Holland. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 160, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1955. viii + 195 pp., 23 figs., 30 pls., 1 chart. $1.25.

Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 24. Edited by Alex D. Krieger. Texas Archeological Society, Austin, 1953. 226 pp., illus. $5.00.

A Woodland Site Near Chatham, Ontario. Kenneth E. Kidd. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, Vol. 30, Pt. 2, Toronto, 1954. Pp. 141-78, 15 figs.

Geschichte der Altamerikanischen Kulturen. Hans Dietrich Disselhoff. R. Oldenbourg, Munich, 1953. 376 pp., 25 figs., 40 pls., 10 maps. DM 25.

La Serpiente Emplumada; Eje de Culturas. José Diazbolio. Registro de Cultura Yucateca, Merida, 1955. 211 pp., 50 pls.

Magic Books from Mexico. C. A. Burland. King Penguin Books, No. 64, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1953. 31 pp., 1 fig., 16 pls. $0.95.

La Venta, Tabasco. A Study of Olmec Ceramics and Art. Philip Drucker. Special sections by Waldo R. Wedel and Anna O. Shephard. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 153, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1952. x + 257 pp., 64 figs., 66 pls. $1.25.

Current Reports, Numbers 1-24. Edited by H. E. D. Pollock. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge, 1952-55. Issued in parts. Illus.

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