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other reasons, I don’t believe it because, as Woodbury himself emphatically states, our
taxonomic systems are for the most part ad hoc systems constructed for specific prob-
lems. 1 question the eternity of our present problems and can at least imagineother
problems and their concomitant systems, in which the Pecos-prnvenience of the
Awatovi artifacts will have little or no meaning.
Except for this reservation (which I consider to he a major one but which is prob-
ably not attributable to Woodbury personally), this report is an excellent one. If we had
a larger number of such monographs, we would be well on our way to a firmer and
broader understanding of aboriginal culture in the Southwest and over the world a t
large. It seems ironic that an archeologist who has taken such umbrage a t my Study of
Archeology should have produced a work which, if not fully conjunctive itself, provides
the raw materials for a conjunctive study of culture.
Czllturas Precolombinas de Chile. GRETAMOSTNY,Santiago de Chile: Editorial del
Pacific0 S.A., 1954. 125 pp., 1 plate. n.p.
Reviewed by RICHARDSCHAEDEL
This modest volume constitutes a handbook of the Chilean Indians, recent and pre-
historic. It is a summary of the various summaries of Chilean cultures which appeared
in the Handbook of the Souh American Indians. As such, it is valuable to the non-English
reading public of Latin America who want a general introduction to aboriginal Chile. The
scholar, however, will find little that is new or of interest and much that will irritate him.
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The Stone Age Races of Norlhwest Africa. L. CABOTBRIGGS.(American School of Pre-
historic Research, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, No. 18.) Cambridge,
Mass.: Peabody Museum, 1955. vi, 98 pp., 22 tables, 4 figs., 18 plates. $3.00.
Rewiewed by F. CLARKHOWELL
This careful study represents the first complete up-to-date analysis of the Neolithic
and pre-Neolithic human remains from Northwest Africa. The skeletal material falls
into the Middle and Upper Pleistocene, and the post-pluvial period up to about 5000
B.C.
Very little is known about the varieties of men who inhabited this portion of the
continent during the Pleistocene. The fragmentary remains from the Rabat Sandstone
(Morocco) of uncertain but perhaps Tyrrhenian I age suggest an early variety of Homo
who possessed a number of features in common with the approximately contempora-
neous form from Choukoutien in North China. Two human lower jaws recently discov-
ered a t Ternifine, Algeria, after this monograph was in press, also suggest the same
general conclusion, as does a new specimen from the Sidi Abderrahmann quarry in
Morocco found in 1955. The more incomplete child’s remains from the Mugharet-el-
’Aliya (Tangier), perhaps of third interpluvial or early last pluvial age and associated
with a Mousterian industry of Levallois facies, bear a general resemblance to the
“Neandertal” group although it is difficult to determine to which particular variety.
Nothing is known of the skeletal features of the later Upper Pleistocene Aterian peoples
(only a cranial fragment is known from the important site of Taforalt, Morocco).
Considerable skeletal material is available from post-pluvial deposits, some or all of
which is about 7,000-8,500 years old, as determined by a few radio carbon tests. These
remains are found in association with microlithic assemblages, the Upper Capsian and