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ARCHAEOLOGICAL
Obituaries
Death has recently come to several
members of the archaeologicalprofession, whose loss will be regretted:
Dr. Bedich Hrozny, the distinguished linguist among whose many
notable achievementswas the decipherment of the Hittite language (December 19, 1952);
Dr. Eliezer L. Sukenik, long active in archaeologicalwork in the Palestinian area and known especiallyfor
his studies of the ancient synagogue
(February 28, 1953);
George H. McFadden, for many
years excavator at Curium, Cyprus
(lost in a sailing accidentoff the coast
of Cyprus, April 19, 1953);
Dr. Alexander A. Vasiliev, the
noted historian of the Byzantine Empire (May 30, 1953).
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call for extra copiesof the Spring Ì951
issue and to report that the stock of
this number has been appreciably increasedsincethe appeal was issued.We
should like to ask that readers also contribute any extra copiesthey may have
of Archaeology Volume 1, Nos. 1
and 2 (Spring and Summer 1948) as
suppliesof these, especiallythe former,
have almost vanished.Pleasesend them
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Summer Schools
Summer sessions have been conducted at the Athens and Rome Schools
during the months of July and August.
The Director of the Athens session
was ProfessorRobert L. Scranton of
Emory University,who is a memberof
our Editorial Advisory Board. Professor Scranton is to be Visiting Professor at the AmericanSchoolof Clas-

Summer 1953

NEWS
sical Studies at Athens during the year
1953-54 and, as noted elsewhere in
these columns, is the recipient of a
Guggenheim fellowship for the study
of the architecture of mediaeval Corinth.
The Director of the Rome summer
school is Professor George E. Duckworth of Princeton University. Both
sessions include lectures and visits to
archaeologicalsites and museums.Each
course forms a comprehensiveintroduction to the history, archaeologyand
general culture of the country.

New Editor for A] A
The appointment of Professor Richard Stillwell as Editor of the American Journal of Archaeology has
been announced by the Archaeological Institute of America. He will
succeed Mr. Ashton Sanborn at the
beginning of 1954. Professor Stillwell, who is a memberof the faculty of
the Schoolof Architectureof Princeton
University, was for many years associated with the American School of
ClassicalStudies at Athens. From 1932
to 1935 he was Director of the School.
Professor Stillwell is the author of
many books and articles and is particularly well known for his work on the
sites of Antioch and Corinth. His latest
publicationis Corinth, The Theatre.

Chicago Expedition
The SouthwestArchaeologicalExpedition of the ChicagoNatural History
Museum is again in the field, under
the direction of Dr. Paul S. Martin,
chief curator of anthropology. Dr.
Grants
John B. Rinaldo, museum archaeolo- Guggenheim
For
the
year 1953-54 the Guggengist, will be principal assistant. The
site of the season's excavations is heim Foundation has announced 191
Pine Lawn Valley [see Archaeology 5 awards, of which thirteen are given for
(1952) 14-21], a mountainous area of research in archaeology and allied
west central New Mexico near the fields.They are as follows:
Marion E. Blake. Studies of the
town of Reserve.
The present project is Dr. Martin's
mosaic pavements of Roman Italy.
George H. Forsyth, Jr., University
nineteenth in a series of expeditionsto
the Southwest, and this is the tenth of Michigan.Studies of Palaeochristian
year in which work has centered on architecture.
Kurt von Fritz, ColumbiaUniversites in New Mexico; in earlier years
work was concentrated in the south- sity. Studies of the development of
western region of Colorado. The ex- Greek historiography.
Robert M. Grant, University of
cavations and concurrent research that
are being conducted have for their ob- Chicago.Studies in the history of early
jective the collectingof more artifacts Christian thought.
Eta Harich-Schneider. Studies of
and skeletons of the prehistoric Mogollon Indians who inhabited the area Japanese mediaeval music.
from about 2500B.c.to about A.D.1350
William H. P. Hatch, Episcopal
when they mysteriously disappeared. Theological School, Cambridge, MasFrom the results of the previous expe- sachusetts. Textual studies of Greek
ditions, Dr. Martin and his associates manuscripts of the New Testament.
Ernst Kitzinger, Dumbarton Oaks
have pieced together much of the
nearly 4,000 years' history of the Mo- Research Library of Harvard Univergollons, but there are still great uncer- sity. Studies in the history of Early
tainties about the beginningand end of Christian and Byzantine arts.
Mabel L. Lang, Bryn Mawr College.
their era as well as wide gaps in between.
Study of changingstandards of weights
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