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Volume 21 - January 1956

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The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization. J. Eric S. Thompson. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954. xii + 286 pp., 20 figs., 24 pls., 26 decorations, map. $5.00.

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New Interpretations of Aboriginal American Culture History. 75th Anniversary Volume of the Anthropological Society of Washington, Washington, 1955. viii + 135 pp., 5 figs., 2 tables. $1.00.

Clay Figurines of the American Southwest. Noel Morss. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 49, No. 1, Cambridge, 1954. x+115 pp., 31 figs. $3.50.

Los Congresos Internationales de Americanistas. Sintesis Históricá e lndice Bibliográfico General, 1875-1952. Juan Comas. Ediciones Especiales del Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, No. 19, Mexico, 1954. lxxxiv + 224 pp., 16 pls. $2.00.

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Exploration of an Adena Mound at Natrium, West Virginia. Ralph S. Solecki. Anthropological Papers, No. 40, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 151, Washington, 1953. Pp. 313-95, Figs. 13-19, Pls. 24-9.

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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.

Pajarito Plateau and its Ancient People. Edgar L. Hewett. Revised by Bertha P. Dutton. With special section by Kenneth M. Chapman. University of New Mexico Press and School of American Research, Albuquerque, 1953. 174 pp., 84 figs., 15 pls. $4.50.

Archaeological Studies in the Petrified Forest National Monument. Fred Wendorf. With appendix by Anna O. Shepard and special sections by Kate Peck Kent and Earl H. Morris. Museum of Northern Arizona, Bull. 27, Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, Flagstaff, 1953. x+204 pp., 96 figs. $6.00.

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.

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The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles: A Study of the Stone-using Agricultural Communities of Britain in the Second Millennium B.C. Stuart Piggot Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1954. xix+420 pp., 64 figs., 12 pls. $13.50.

Paracas Fabrics and Nazca Needlework, 3rd Century B.C.-3rd Century A.D. Junius Bird. With Technical Analysis by Louisa Bellinger. The Textile Museum, Catalogue Raisonné, Washington, 1954. viii + 126 pp., 26 figs., 127 pls. (16 in color), 3 technical charts. $18.00.

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.

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Prehistoric Stone Implements of Northeastern Arizona. Richard B. Woodbury. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 34, Reports of the Awatovi Expedition No. 6, Cambridge, 1954. xiii + 240 pp., 41 figs., 19 tables. $7.50.

Max Uhle, 1856-1944: A Memoir of the Father of Peruvian Archaeology. John Howland Rowe. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 46, No. 1, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1954. viii + 134 pp., frontis., 14 pls. $1.75.

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.

Pine Park Shelter, Washington County, Utah. Jack R Rudy. University of Utah Anthropological Papers, No. 18 (bound with Nos. 17 and 19), University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1954. iv + 24 pp., 16 figs. $1.00.

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