. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 67. Prehistoric Indian basketry and textiles of the American Southwest. Large round basketry shield is one of three or four known to exist. progressed lie found it necessary to borrow from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University the original cervical vertebrae of the Skhul V Neanderthal from Mount Carmel in Palestine. The Skhul-Shanidar cervical spines are the most complete thus far recovered from ancient times. In general the neck vertebrae of the Neanderthals are not as different from t
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 67. Prehistoric Indian basketry and textiles of the American Southwest. Large round basketry shield is one of three or four known to exist. progressed lie found it necessary to borrow from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University the original cervical vertebrae of the Skhul V Neanderthal from Mount Carmel in Palestine. The Skhul-Shanidar cervical spines are the most complete thus far recovered from ancient times. In general the neck vertebrae of the Neanderthals are not as different from those of modern man as earlier studies had indicated. Archeology.—Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, curator of archeology, made some headway in the preparation of field reports on the 1952 investiga- tions by the Smithsonian Institution and Princeton University at the Horner site near Cody, Wyo., and of the report on field work for the River Basin Surveys in 1951, and again in 1955-57, in Stanley County, S. Dak. In addition, he completed for publication in a dedicatory pamphlet projected by the Musemn of the Great Plains, Lawton, Okla., a paper on some archeological problems in the Great Plains, and began work on a paper dealing with the High Plains and their utilization by the Indian, essentially an ecological study of native man and environment in the heart of what was once known as the Great American Desert. He also read proof on his book, "Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains," being published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Early in the year, as a result of the discovery near Littleton, Colo., of a late Pleistocene bone bed with possible human Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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