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ARCHAEOLOGICAL
Fellowships for 1959-1960
Several institutions and foundations
have awarded fellowships to scholars
in archaeologyand related studies. In
the last issuewe listed the recipientsof
the Rome Prize fellowshipsin Classical
studies. Other awards are as follows:
The American Association of University Women has granted four fellowships to women in archaeological
and closelyrelated fields.
Joan Marie Fagerlie's researchwill
seek the explanation for hoards of
Byzantine coins found in Scandinavia,
dating from A.D.395 to 565. This carries on her earlier work.
Joan E. Freeman, who worked in
a related area last year, will make a
study of culture change from a Caddoan type to a Plains-like culture in
northeastern Oklahoma.
Ann Konrad Knudsen is beginning a survey to determine the influence of metallic vessel types and
metal ornaments on clay vases of early
Greece.
Jeanny Esther Vorys will continue her study of Hittite bronze figurines, especiallytheir relation to similar figurines from North Syria and
Palestine.

NEWS
Annual Meeting of the
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
OF AMERICA
The sixty-first General Meeting of
the Archaeological Institute of
America will be held jointly with the
Annual Meetingof the American Philological Association at the Hotel
Commodore, New York, N. Y., December 28-30, 1959.
The program of the meeting will be
mailed to all members. Those who
wish to read papers should submit
titles and abstracts, not later than October 30, 1959, to the General Secretary, Archaeological Institute of
America, 5 Washington Square North,
New York 3, N. Y.

merce in Hellenistic and Roman times
Lloyd William Daly, University
of Pennsylvania. The origin and history of alphabetization in antiquity
and the Middle Ages.
Sterling Dow, Harvard University. Studies of Greece in antiquity.
Theodor Herzl Gaster, Dropsie
College. Studies of the religious communities of the Samaritans.
Robert McQueen Grant, University of Chicago. The early history of
The American Research Center in the Christian Church.
Richard Casper Rudolph, UniverEgypt has appointed two Fellows for
research in Egypt, thanks to a grant by sity of California, Los Angeles. A
the Bollingen Foundation.
study of Chinese archaeology from
Nicholas B. Millet has been ap- early to modern times.
pointed Fellow in Egyptology.
Doris Mae Taylor, Wheaton ColGeorge T. Scanlon has been lege, Norton, Massachusetts. Trade in
granted the Fellowship in Islamic the Western Mediterranean in the
Studies.
second century B.c.
Lily Ross Taylor, Bryn Mawr
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fel- College.Roman politics in the last two
centuries of the Republic, 220-44 b.c.
lowships in ancient studies and arto
the
chaeology
following:
Elias J. Bickerman, ColumbiaUni- Postscript to Haberland Report
In our last issue (Archaeology 12
versity. Studies in the history of the
late Roman Empire.
[1959] 136-138) we presented an acLionel Casson, New York Univer- count of the investigations during the
sity. The history of maritime corn- past year in El Salvador, Nicaragua

and Costa Rica by Dr. Wolfgang
Haberland of the Hamburg Museum
for Ethnologyand Prehistory.A recent
letter from Dr. Haberland, written on
board ship, homeward bound, rounds
off his report. We quote from Dr.
Haberland's letter:
On February 14 I flew from Costa
Rica to Panama, and after some days
went to the province of Chiriqui in
the northwestern part of the country,
where I spent nearly six weeks exploring and excavating.My special interest,
the main objective this season, was
to find additional sites of the Aguas
Buenas culture, which I had first
found during my last trip, and to
secure more material from them. In
this quest I was quite successful,locating and sampling six new habitation
sites of this culture, which is, in my
opinion, of the "Formative" developmental stage. Exploration showed that
the Aguas Buenas culture covered
quite a large area both in the highlands and in the coastal area of Chiriqui, with only minor variations between them. Furthermore, I excavated
near La Concepcióneight more graves
of the "Classic" Chiriqui culture, more
or less of the same type as those which
I published in Archaeology (10
[1957] 258-263), but still richer in
contents. In the area of La Concepción
a new, possibly "Formative," complex
was found, and farther east another
complex, which seems to be contemporaneous with "Classic" Chiriqui.
The material from both of these must
be studied more thoroughly before it
will be possibleto define them exactly.
The next trip in Panama took me to
the peninsula of Azuero (on the Pacific coast) where I dug test pits at
some living sites near Guararé, which
yielded a tremendous amount of sherd
material, as well as bone and shell.
No burials were encountered during
the excavation.It will be interestingto
compare this material with that ex203

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