discoveriesin the Soviet Far East are significant for the light they throw on man's initial settlement, not only in this portion of the Soviet Union but also in the neighboring island world and probably more remoteregions. Remains of the later Palaeolithic Period have been uncovered along the Yenisei River by another expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences.Habitats dated to the end of the Pleistocene Period are located on the western bank of the river, near the village of Kokorevo, 230 kilometersnorth of the city of Krasnoyarsk. Among the usual remains of stone tools and ornaments and the bones of the animals which the hunters had caught was a fragment of the left shoulder-blade of an adult aurochs with the head of a spear made out of reindeer antler imbedded in it. This is the first time in the history of Palaeolithic studies in the Soviet Union that Fragmentof an aurochs'shoulder-bladewith a horn spear or dart head studc into it, found at Kokorevoin 1962. The spearheadhad a narrow groovefor flint cutting-platesalthoughno traces of flint were found in it, evenunderx-ray.Photograph,S. Ozersky,NovostiPressAgency. 157