Word: regions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present professor will probably turn them over to the Museum. Important work among the Indians has been done by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, who studied the of the Pawnees, in Oklahoma, and by Dr. Frans Russell, in Arizona. Professor Putnam visited California and collected specimens of gravel in the region or where the famous Calaveras skull was found in order to decided the disputed question of its precise source and age by comparing these gravel with the gravel take from the skull...
...American Society of Naturalists and affiliated societies, held in Baltimore on December 27. The colored stereopticon slides which will be used to illustrate the lecture are loaned by Mr. A. C. Vroman of Pasadena California and are made from probably the finest collection of photographs ever taken in the region of the South-west...
...transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world, but were organized and developed in that very region itself. This culture then and its initial stages, called the "Amorgan period" because this civilization of the Aegaean islands was first distinctly noticed on the small island of Amorgos, is best regarded as a local phase of the common Mediterranean life. Furthermore it is not unimportant to reflect that the stage...
...which once contained over 1000 inhabitants. The villages are on the Moki Indian Reservation on the Colorado River. Dr. Russell's collection will prove to be of especial value, since the Pueblo relics are gradually being destroyed by traders. The Indian Department has recently prohibited any exploration in this region, but it spite of the prohibition these small traders are continually searching in the ruins for pottery, while other objects valuable to archaeologists are thrown aside and lost. Dr. Russell's collection includes pottery, skeletons, and ornaments of beads, shells and turquoise...
Although the region has been reported upon by members of the United States Geological Survey, particularly by Powell and Dutton, Professor Davis says it is still a rich field for the investigator. An advanced student in geology might make a good name for himself by preparing a thesis on the deformed and fractured structure along the great Hurricane Ledge, or on the igneous rocks of the Ninkaret Plateau...