ARCHEOLOGY 1929

by NEIL M. JUDD
Curator of American Archeology,
United States National Museum

WITHIN the Americas, the most notable achievement unquestionably has been the National Geographic Society’s establishment of a chronology that adds some 1,500 years to history; determines the age of Pueblo Bonito, most famous ruin of the southwestern United States; and dates some forty other villages heretofore indefinitely classified as prehistoric. Henceforth it will be possible, by correlation, more closely to approximate the relative ages of divers New World peoples whose dead civilizations are gradually being revivified by various research institutions.

From Europe and Asia come echoes of new discoveries by the Pennsylvania-British Museum expedition at Ur of the Chaldees, by the British Academy in Constantine’s Hippodrome at Constantinople, by Italians throughout Italy and in Crete, by French archeologists at Delos and Delphi, by Russians in the Crimea, and by Americans at Corinth and elsewhere.

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