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to populations thousands of years in the past is 19,470 feet) during the time theU.S. Army who made a particular group of artifacts is Alaskan Test Expeditionspent two months hazardous at best. These lastspeculations, in 1942 onand around Mount McKinley, while interesting, arenot reallyrelevant to carrying out accelerated cold tests of equip- the preliminary report of archaeological ment for use by the U.S. and Canadian sequences of and relationships between the Armies and Air Force.He also co-led in Naknek Drainageand the Pacific archaeo- 1951 with Dr. Henry Buchtel the first ascent logical materials. from the West, pioneering this route which The summary under review provides little has now superseded the Muldrow Glacier as new information since the sequences (periods the more popular route. A large-scale map for Naknek and phases for the Pacific) were of the mountain was published in 1960, summarizedin an earlierpaper 1: 1108-11 based partly on surveys which he led, com- and certain aspects were debated by Aigner pleting also the 1953 Boston Science Museum et al. 2: 87-88 and rebutted by Dumond 3: survey of theNorth side of the McKinley 88-90. The majoraddition, andthe impor- massif. He and his wife have devoted a good tance of the present work is the inclusion of part of their lives to the study of the moun- photographs of the characteristiclithic ma- tainand its approaches and she is the only terialsand a more specific, though still woman to have reached both summits. summary listing of the characteristic artifacts In the first part of the book theauthor andother pertinent data of each phase in gives generalconsiderations on the massif, both sequences. Dumond‘s 1969 article is its geology, its climate and the characteristics directed to a wider, more general audience, of theclimb, the weather being by far the while this work addresses those actively en- greatobstacle with its big stormsand rare gaged in Alaskan archaeological research so fine days, due to the isolation of the massif that data may be more easily used for com- as it rises out of level lowlands situated be- parative purposes. In this sense, the work is tween 1,000 and 2,000 feet. of considerable value and Dumond must be Mount McKinley had been first ascended commended for making the data available. in 1913 by the Stuck-Karstens expedition, Joan B. Townsend while the first ascent of the North Peak had been made in 1910 by a party led by Thomas REFERENCES Lloyd who had believed the North Peak to be the highest. Earlier unsuccessful attempts IDumond,D. E. 1969. Prehistoriccultural had been made by different expeditions, in- contactin southwestern . Sc*ience, cluding the ones led by Dr. 166: 1108-15. -the Polar explorer-who had claimed to zAigner, J. S., W. S. Laughlin andR. F. have made the first ascent in 1906. Black. 1971. Earlyracial and cultural The authorrecords succinctly the highlights identifications in southwestern Alaska. in the history of the great mountain, noted Science, 171: 87-88. first by the George Vancouver Expedition in aDumond, D. E. 1971. Rejoinder to “Early 1794 from Cook Inlet, and of its 89 ascents racial and cultural identifications in south- tothe date of publication of the book in western Alaska” by J. S. Aigner, W. S. 1971, including theclimb in 1970 by a Laughlinand R. F. Black. Science, 171: Japanese party with Kazuo Hoshikawa who 88-90. made the first descent from the summit on skis-the second having been accomplished by the Swiss Sylvain Saudan the following year on the Southwest side. Climbs of sur- rounding peaks are also mentioned in the A TOURIST GUIDE TO MOUNT McKIN- Guide. In addition there is aninformative LEY. BY BRADFORDWASHBURN. Anchorage: description of the 91 miles of the Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, Highway, crossing the Mount McKinley Na- 1971. Sj/,x I1-5/2 inches, SO pages, illustrated. tional Park,from theAnchorage-Fairbanks $7.50 hardbound, $3.95 softbound. Highway tothe KantishnaLanding Field, with excellent photographs of beautiful Who better than the author, now director of scenery, wild life, vegetation and viewsof Boston’s Museum of Science, couldhave the mountain. writtenthis very interesting and well docu- A detailed bibliography and indexmake mented monograph on “Denali’”“The this book especially valuable for those wish- Great One”?Bradford had with ing to have clear and reliable information on aparty of seven madethe third ascent of themountain and its approaches. the South Peak, 20,320 feet (the North Peak Paul Blanc