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BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Early Stockaded Settlements in the Governador, New Mexico.

By Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. Columbia Studies in Archae-

ology and Ethnology, Vol. II, Pt. I. (New York, Columbia

University Press, 1944. 96p. Illus. $2.00.)

This is a report of excavations carried on in north-central

New Mexico by a joint expedition from Columbia University and

the Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The

purpose of the expedition was to expand our knowledge of the

Rosa culture phase, the oldest known from this part of the

Southwest, and to prove or disprove its relationship to the later

Largo-Gallina phase.

A connection between these two phases was established and

in addition a number of discoveries were made which are of great

importance with regard to early contacts between the Plains and

Southwestern cultures. Three sites were intensively excavated,

twelve sites tested, and over seventy added to those already noted

in archaeological surveys. The book is liberally illustrated with

pictures of typical structures, pottery, and artifacts and contains

a bibliography and index. This report constitutes Part I of Vol-

ume II of the Columbia Studies in Archaeology and Ethnology.

H. L.

 

Christopher Columbus, The Discoverer. By Mattie Johns Utting.

(Boston, Mass., Christopher Publishing House, 1944. 176p.

Illus. $2.00.)

This biography chronicles the outstanding events in Co-

lumbus' life in a colorful, and yet brief, and compact form. Pages,

lavish with detail, set the mood, followed by chapters of general-

izations, sketching in the main events in the life of Columbus.

The principal individuals receive clear characterization; and

groups comprising backgrounds are satisfactorily typed. Plans,

voyages, successes and disappointments of major importance are

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