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~- .~·,....,.,. ·" i. CENTRAL STATES BULLETIN ... Volume I January - February 1947 Number·~ MAY MEETING IN ANN ARBOR COOPERATIVE DEGREES t PROS A1TD CONS "r, The Central States Branch of the Amer In the preceding number of the BULtf. ican Anthropological Association and the TIN the question. ~f Cooperative Higher Society for .American Archaeology will hold Degrees was raised by Professor. Ca.tl F. · a joint meeti'rtl'; at the University of Mich• Voegelin. So much interest was aroused igan in Ann Arbor on May 16 and 17. Plans in the topic that the Editors invited are being made locally to accor:unodate mem the heads of several nadwestern a.n.thro bers at the Ndchigan Union. Since there pology departments to contribute state are not enough single rooms, for all, it ments of their opinions. Four teplfes will be necessary for many members to were received and these ·are presen~ed share a room with someone else. Members below. A few condensations were made are adv;.sed therefore to ma]ce plans accord .. to conserve space, but the viewpoj.nta· ingly and well in advance of the meeting. of the writers have been left inta.ot. Rates: Single roows, $2.20 and $2.75; These articles, ta:rnn jointly, con~' Double: ·$4.40; tµ,;s.50 and 06.60. stitute the feature for this issue. All persons ple.nning to attend should write to Volney H. Jones or to Leslie A. White (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) I.·To.r_~~~~?t~r~ _Qniv~:r:~~-~y who will make their reservations for them. (MeJo Herskovits) No advance payment is required. President Fred Eggan of the c.s.B. ~as V'fo a~ Northwestern have always been advised us that the followinG Committees'.. attracted by the idea of cooperating in have been ~ppointed to sorve in connection making available to students the re• with the May Meeting. Suggestions or re sources of anthropology wherever mater• commendations should be sent to the respeo ia.ls fit into a student's interests,' I ti ve Chairmen. cannot say with certainty, but. I believe Pro~ram Committee: J.B. Griffin, Chairman, that we a~e one of t~e very few depart ments offering graduate work, who·as a A. I. Halrowell 1 G. Qui1nby, G. Neu?nann-;- J. Bennett. matter of' poliey require that studants who take their under"·~aduate majors Local Committee on Arrangements: L.A. V:hi te in the department go elsewhere for gr'.J.dua.te Chai_!.m~, v. Jones their work. We feel that in this waJ-r they benefit from exposure to Nominating Commit-tee: M.J. Herskovits, various approaches to the pr".>bletns of Chairman, v; ,c. IVIoKern, c.F. Voegelin, anthropology,, and f.rom the t.r.a.ining they obtsin i~ specia.Jties that are not Symposium on the Needs and Problemn of offered hero. By the se.me token all . Smaller D~tnienta in th.8M1. ddl e '."'T8St: 1 our graduate students are drawn rrorn' 11!. Titiev, Chairman, J-:-Bennet(t Secre- other institutions. This makes for a ~ary~ (Panel of speakers to be selected,) (oon't. page 3) (con 't .- page 3) /. OFFICERS OF THE CE:t;TRAL STATES BRANCH President: ••••••••••••••••••••.••• Fred.E~~an, Univ9rsity of ehicago. 1st Vice-President •••••••••••••••• Georg rfoumann, Indiana University· 2nd Vice-President: ••••••••••••••• George ~uimby, Field Huseum of Natural History Socretary-Treasurer ••••••••••••••• Hadeline l\neberc;, University of Tennessee Executive Committee: •••••••••••••• Melviile lT. Herskovit0, Northwestern University T.M.N~ Lewis,. University of '11ennessee · Leslie A. Vfhite, University of Michigan Edi tor: ••••••••••••••••••••••.•••• :Mischa Titiev, 405 11ason Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor~ Michigan r Associate Editors: ••••••••••••••••William R. Bascom, Northwestern University Solon T. Kimball, Michigan State College Scudder Mekeel., University of Wisconsin Richard G. T:Iorgan, Ohio State Museum Charles E. Snow, University of' Kentucky Sol Tax, University of Chicago Ca.rl F. Voogelin, Indiana University ENERGY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION The first source Of energy to b~ bofesso_r_'LesTfe-A~ ·wh:ite·---·- utilized in culture building was the human bodyll The runount of energy that (Edi tor's Note: On February 16, 1947, Prof can be obtained from human bodies is, essor Leslie A. White, Chairman of the De~ of course~ small •••• Naturally the oul partment of Anthropology at the University ture, or civilization, built with' these of Michigan, had tho honor of beinG the meager resources, was exceedingly lO'V't intermission speaker during the broadcast and crude •••• of the New York Philharmonic Symphony pro The first really great step in cul gram. Excerpts from his tan: follow.) tural advance was ta.ken when man learned Human civilization is about one mill to domesticate animals and to cultivo.te ion years old. During this long course of plants ••• cAnd when man harnessed these time, civilization has grmvn from the level natural forcese.h0 ~reatly increased of our prehuman ancestors to the status in energy resources at his disposal for which we find it today •••• ?·Tan, like all culture building. As a consequence, there was a groat increase in population; other animals 1 is engaged in a strug~le for existence~ This struggle takes place not villaees grew into cities, and tri~e~ only between man and his natural habitat, into nations and empires. More e.nd,more but within the human species i tsolf--be-\ people were freed from the labor of food tween tribes and nations. Civilization,~ nroduction as agrictil ture became mdre or culture, is the means employed by man efficient, and thefr time and talonts to carry on his struggle for survival •••• were devoted to the a.rts, crafts, ·and An essential feature of culture is its professions ••• o continuity; for a large ,art of the culuure · The second great step in cultural of one generation or age is passed on to advance was taken only a century or two the next. Culture is thus a continuous ago when solar energy was again harness process which grows and develops in accord ed, this time in the form of coal and ance with principles of its. ovm. We are oil by means of steam and internal. com• able to formulate the laws of this develop bustion engines. ment. And the basic law relates to energy. And today we are on the threshold When only a small amount of energy is con of a third sta00 of cultural advancei trolled per capita, the culture will be that ~f harnessing the ·energy of the low; man will be a savage or a barbarian. nucleus of the atom. If, however, the amount of energy harnessed The social systems of' mankind are and put to work be great, the culture will olosely related to their underlying ·· be high •••• This is the fundamental law of technolocioal systems - to the ways · 'the growth of civilization. in which.energy is harnessed and put to (con't next column) ( con' t page -4, col. 2) ,. ·- --·-~- CQOPE~TIVE DEGREES (cont. from p.l) MAY MEETING (oon•t. from pagef 1) diversity of point of view that has proved Members.of the Central States Branch to be stimulating in seminars and class who wish to read papers at the meeting, discussion, po.rticularly where matters of should submit titles~ requirements for theory are involved. lanterns, and other information ·to l"ro As to the project of offering-coopera fessor JoBe Griffin. Tho deadline for tive degrees by midwestern institutions, the receipt of titles is Aprif 20th, · the idea in principle is excellent, pro a.nd all papers will ba· limited to 15 vided practical considerations permit. minutes. ;< ,.. Probably the best thing to do would be for Members of the Sooiety for American each institution to recognize the fact Archaeology should send titJ:es· and other that certain fields are best represented pertinent data to Prof'essor Fay-Cooper in other departments of the are~, and to Cole. suggest that their students who might pro --------·~------------ fitably do so go to ~hese departments for NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE , a quarter or a seraester or a year, so that Florida Park Service they can take o.dvantage of such offerings as may be in line vrith their interests and Excavation of an historic mound in the requi~ents of their future fields of south-central Florida revealod quanti research. I am afraid that tho complica ties of trade beads, copper and silver tions of administrative re~ulations of our pendants, iron axes, hawk's bells., etc. several universities would stand in the way Preliminary estimates place the age at of formally instituting programs of the 17th or early 18t~ century. In addition, cooperative Ph.D.'s - I take it that the a portion of a Spanish pot, and two do2• M.A. is not under consideration here - but zen burials in poor condition were un- that is no reason why the possibility c ov or o d • ( J •Vi o G• ) cannot be explored. Wha·tever the case,, Fort Frederica. National Monument we can informally agree that students might advantageously ro for a time where Anthropology and archeoology have they oan get vrhat they need; and actually been at a near standstill or ate best a send them there. slow crawl duo to the ~mpendirtg ·formal Some arrangement of this kind would dedication of Fort Frederica National seem to be called for in~iew of the fact Fonument on March 22. There seema to be that no department,, not only in the middle little chance that colonial archeolo~y west but in the United States, adequ~tely can be started here in tho near Suture. cares for all specialties, particularly if Several sites formerly tested by under the term "specialties" we include Holder have been reexamined und a.