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A NEW departure in publication is a series of “Anthropological Papers” consisting of articles less extended in length than the usual report on the explorations of the Smithsonian Institution, which will be numbered consecutively, and will be collected from time to time in bulletin form as occasion requires. The first issue (Bull. 119; 1938) contains six articles, of which the first and most considerable is a preliminary report by Mr. A. R. Kelly on the first four seasons' work of excavation on mound sites in the Ocmulgee Basin near Macon, Georgia. These excavations were undertaken originally as a measure of unemployment relief under the Civil Works Administration. The site has yielded an unanticipated wealth of material, and exploration is still in progress. Cultural development here appears, so far as present knowledge goes, to be of an extremely localized type, in which a pottery of characteristically primitive appearance is associated with an unusual type of underground house and early evidence of agriculture. Whether this represents an archaic horizon in the south-east is a moot question; but at several points it exhibits generalized resemblances with regions geographically so far distant as the Great Plains and the south-west. The remaining papers deal with a pipe ceremonial of the Arapahoes (Mr. John M. Carter), the Caribs of Dominica (Mr. Douglas Taylor), a Sauk sacred pack (Mr. Truman Michelson), the physical therapy of Soshoni of Idaho, upon which Mr. Julian H. Steward reports, and a biographical account of an Owens Valley Paiute by the same author.
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Smithsonian Institution Anthropological Publications. Nature 142, 1071 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421071c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421071c0