Archaeology Magazine - June 1957 - Cover3

ON
INVESTIGATIONS
CURRENT
RESEARCH
ON THEMIDDLE
EAST, ARCHAEOLOGICAL
IN WEST
PLATEAU
1956.Edited by William Sands and THEUNCOMPAHGRE
COLORADO,
John Hartley. 90 pages. The Middle CENTRAL
by H. M. WORMIN ARCHAEOLOGY:
SEMINARS
1955.Or- East Institute, Washington 1957
iNGTONand Robert H. Lister, xiv,
ganized and edited by Robert WauThis second issue of the annual sur- 129 pages, 69 figures.The Denver Muchope. X, 158 pages, 6 figures,5 tables.
seum of Natural History, Denver 1956
vey of work in progress in Middle
Societyfor AmericanArchaeology,Salt Eastern studies includes, in addition to (Proceedings,No. 2)
Lake City, Utah 1956 (Memoirs of the current
A report on the excavation of rock
reports*information on projects
Societyfor AmericanArchaeology,No. previously reported and on final dis- shelters in 1937-39.The totality of ar11) $1.50
position and availability of completed tifacts composing the Uncompahgre
Many papers formulated by the well works. The coverage has been some- Complex is outlined and described; it
knownAmericanarchaeologistsBeards- what extended by the inclusion of ma- represents a hunting and food-gatherley, Haury, Jennings, Lathrap, Meg- terial from a few scholars in eastern ing people, without pottery or domesticated plants. There are slight differgers, Reed, Spaulding, Thompson and Europe.
ences from several other complexesin
Willey, the results of four seminars
held at various places in 1955 on the
the Great Basin area. Other excavaNUMIDIAE
MAURE-tions made in Glade Park and Little
subjects: 1. An ArchaeologicalClassi- CORPUSNUMMORUM
fication of Culture Contact Situations TANÌAEQUE,
by Jean Mazard. 264 Park in 1951 and 1952give a temporal
(Cambridge). 2. An Archaeological pages, numerous figures and plates, in- range of ca. a.D. 350-1300;that for the
Approach to the Study of Cultural dexes. Gouvernement Général de l'Al- Uncompahgre Complex is less certain
Stability (Ann Arbor). 3. The Amer- gérie, Direction de l'Intérieur et des but possibly much older.
ican Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Beaux-Arts, Antiquités et Monuments
Isolation (Santa Fe). 4. Functionaland Historiques, Missions Archéologiques.
OF ANCIENT
EGYPT,by
Evolutionary Implications of Commu- Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris THECULTURE
nity Patterning (Washington). Many 1955
John A. Wilson, vi, 344 pages, 73
other prominent scholars took part in
This valuablepublicationof the coins figures. University of Chicago Press,
the four seminars, and the Memoir of Numidia and
Mauretania makes Chicago 1956 (Phoenix Books) $1.50
summarizes the results of their dis- available for the first time a
This book, already reviewed in its
complete
cussions.
survey of the numismatic evidence of original edition, entitled The Burden
these regions from the third century of Egypt (Archaeology 4 [1951]
LATE
POTTERY
MOGOLLON
TYPES
OF THE B.c. to the first A.D.The arrangement is 124), is a useful and very readable
RESERVE
AREA,by JOHN B. RINALDO easy to follow, the issues of the royal treatment of cultural phases in the
and Elaine A. Bluhm. 39 pages, 34 houses preceding those of the autono- long history of Egypt. It is now pubfigures. Chicago Natural History Mu- mous cities. Careful indexes include lished as an inexpensive paper-bound
seum, Chicago 1956 (Fieldiana: An- names, countermarks and Latin, Greek reprint. The Chronology (pages 319and Punic legends. The text figures, 320) has been brought up to date; on
thropology,Vol. 36, No. 7) $1.25
A thorough technological descrip- though sketchy, are helpful and the the other hand, every mistake in the
tion of the dozen types of pottery dis- plates present the whole of the corpus captions of the illustrations has been
of over six hundred and fifty coins.
faithfully repeated.
tinguished in the excavations of the
Natural
Museum
durChicago
History
ing the last six years in the Reserve
area of the San Francisco River in
western New Mexico. Most of the
important stock of
types are unpainted corrugated, but a
few are profusely decorated. IllustraANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN COINS
tions and sections of all types are
shown, and all necessary information
is given to place each type in its proper
FINE PORTRAIT MEDALS AND
genetic and temporal niche. The time
COINS OF THE RENAISSANCE
range is A.D.950-1250.
BRIEF

NOTICES

MEZCALA:
ANCIENT
MEXICAN
SCULPTURE,
by Miguel Covarrubias. 36 pages, 46
Illustrated catalogues and price lists upon
illustrations, 1 map. André Emmerich
New
York
1956
$1.50
Gallery,
Beautifully illustrated descriptionof
a fine and unusual collectionof small
MARK M. SALTON-SCHLESSINGER
stone human figures and masks from
20 Magaw Place, New York 33, New York
the Mexican State of Guerrero, with
Since1898.FormerlyBerlin-Amsterdam
an account of its archaeologicalbackground and artistic quality and nature.
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