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THE HISTORYOF WOODWORKING
east coast of Africa from the Straits
208 of Bab el Mandeb in the north to
TOOLS,by W. L. GOODMAN.
pages, 200 figures, 5 tables, frontis- the Limpopo in the south. Included
piece. David McKay, New York in this survey are sites, chieflyArab,
1966 $12.00
in Somalia, Kenya and Tanganyika
Goodman has studied extensively and on the islands of Zanzibar,
in the museums of western Europe Pemba and Madagascar. There are
to produce this volume, which good sketch maps and plans, and
dwells principally on the axe and excellent illustrations of mosques,
adze, the plane and the saw. His minarets, forts, palaces, pillars,
effectivetime span is from the Mid- tombs and imported Persian ceramdle Ages to the present day and; ics. A brief bibliography provides
areal limitations considered, he the reader who may wish to incovers this moderately well. The vestigate the area further with, as
the author says, "the necessary inonly just comparison for this work formation
or the means to it, or
is with Henry Mercer's Ancient
greater confusion.""The
Carpenters' Tools (Doylestown, Pa. [may] add
I960) which has, by historic acci- history of man in East Africa," he
dent, some Far Eastern tools and adds, "is still in its infancy."
more Americanisms. While these
works supplement each other and THEHARDIN
VILLAGE
SITE,by Lee H.
both are indispensable in the lit- Hanson, Jr. ix, 184 pages, 67 figerature on hand tools, there is no ures, 3 tables. University of Kenbook which may properly be titled tucky Press,Lexington1966(Studies
The History of Woodworking in Anthropology,4) $5.00
Tools. Goodman's is recommended
An
STUDIIN ONOREDl LUISABANTI. for a detailed
study
of a few tools of the essentially descriptive
archaeology of a large vilxviii, 355 pages, 32 figures, 79 over a limitedhistory
time and space. It
plates, 2 tables. "L'Erma" di Bret- is a rebuke to the professional lage site near the mouth of the
Scioto River, on the Ohio River, in
schneider,Rome 1965
scholar that virtually all studies of northeastern
Kentucky. The eight
On the occasionof her retirement this subject come from the hands houses, 301 burials
and other feafrom the Professorshipof Etruscol- of amateurs.
and abundant artifacts protures,
ogy at the University of Florence,
vide valuable documentation for
Luisa Banti was honored with this
ON THEEAST the Fort Ancient Aspect during the
volumeof forty-threestudies.While MENANDMONUMENTS
late prehistoric period. The interCOAST,
by JAMESS. KiRKthese concentrate on Minoan and AFRICAN
sections are surprisingly
pretative
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man.
23
19
figures,
pages,
Etruscan subjects, which have been
brief and superficial for a volume
New
A.
Frederick
Praeger,
Professor Banti's main fields of re- plates.
which represents the first detailed
York 1966 $7.50
search, they vary as widely as do
study of this complex in Kentucky.
her interests.Most of the papers are
The layman looking for new The site is probably correctly
idenshort and there is no unifying worlds to explore should welcome tified as a village of the Shawnee
but
much
Warden
matethis book. Mr. Kirkman,
theme,
Indians of about A.D.1500-1675.
important
rial is reported. A bibliography of of the Coastal Historical Sites of
Professor Banti's writings rounds Kenya for the past sixteen years, THEARTOF GREECE
1400-31B.C.,by
out this impressiveFestschrift.
has an intimate knowledge of the
J. J. Pollitt. xviii, 254 pages, frontispiece.
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Pollitt.
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J.
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