HARVARD UNIVERSITY news about the Fall 1967 PEABODY MUSEUM and DEPARTMENT of ANTHROPOLOGY FIRST EDITION SCIENCE DRIVE UNDER WAY This addition to the communications mael­ On November 12th, the Program for Science strom is being made in the hope it will provide in­ in Harvard College was formally initiated. Seeking formation of interest about the current happenings $48.7 million to up-date facilities in the College, of Peabody and the Department. It will be printed the funds will be used to build a Science Center, three or four times a year as news accumulates, provide eleven departments with more space and and we plan to send it to those who have been better equipment, and in a few instances, to endow connected to the department and those who are professorships. The fund-raising effort which in­ concerned with activities of the Museum. cludes,the Peabody Museum and the Department of Anthropology is scheduled to terminate at Commencement 1969. - ~ ;r-- FROM THE GUATEMALAN JUNGLES COME MORE ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES GORDON R. WILLEY returned again this Spring to the site of Seibal on the Pasion River at the western edge of the Peten jungles. This expedition, the fourth in a series investigating this important Mayan site, continues a Peabody tradi­ tion in the field of Middle American archaeology that began with Bowditch's work in Yucatan and at Copan, Honduras, in the late 1880's and 1890's. Professor Willey was accompanied as usual by his expert field assistant, A. LEDYARD SMITH, '25, and a group of graduate students. This current research is being carried on with funds from the National Science Foundation, and represents the next to last season of the Museum's work in this · intriguing area where Willey is searching for new data which may throw light on the causes of the "fall" of Classic Maya civilization. A forthcoming article in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropol ~ ogy by Willey and one of his students, JEREMY SABLOFF, deals with this important question. Classic Maya Stela, 850 A.D. 2 NEWS OF STAFF RESEARCH Latin American studies at Harvard are also If the following description of research sounds continued with the long-term project in Chiapas, more like a travelogue than a serious report on Mexico, of Professor EVON VOGT who spent the summer again at San Cristobal Las Casas where current staff activities, it only serves to point out the central "field work" orientation of all anthro­ he has set up a field station for research on the Tzotzil-speaking Indians and for the training of pology. students. Some 54 students have worked in this Despite the recent Middle Eastern crisis, Pro­ fessor C. C. LAMBERG-KARLOVSKY was able project since its inception in 1957. to carry out a very successful NSF -sponsored field season in that troubled area this past summer. The South Pacific beckoned again for Pro­ However, there was a last-minute shift in locale fessor DOUGLAS OLIVER, although- this time with Iran being substituted for the planned-on it was only Hawaii where he spent the summer Syria. He had a small group of students with him working on a book on Tahitian society. Despite and was able to make preliminary investigations the obvious distractions inherent in the location, in southeastern Iran, 250 kilometers southwest of he seems to get more work done in that sleepy Kerman, where he found and tested a large and environment than many of us do in "cool" Cam­ very promising site. In this work he follows in bridge. the footsteps of Sir Aurel Stein, whose Peabody collections of the 1930's he had recently been Our other inveterate "ocean-hopper," Pro­ studying. fessor HALLAM MOVIUS spent the summer as Another NSF -sponsored expedition was that usual at his second home in the Vezere Valley at of Professor THOMAS PATTERSON which took Tursac, working with a small group of students on him back for the third consecutive year of field the long and arduous task of analyzing the mass work in Peru. This time work was concentrated in of data from his long-term researches at the Abri­ the Anc6n area, and an impressively detailed se­ Pataud (Les Eyzies, Dordogne), where his meticu­ quence covering 12,000 years has been prelim­ lous excavations have provided a wealth of infor­ inarily worked out. This section of Peru was the mation on the Upper Paleolithic of southwestern site of some of the first stratigraphic excavation Frarree. · in the New World with Uhle's work there in 1896; , Professor GORDON WILLEY also worked here in the early forties, but much remains to be done. As the foregoing makes plain, Cambridge was Professor WILLIAM HOWELLS continues rather devoid of anthropologists this summer, but to add new dimensions of craniometry in his DR. WILLIAM BULLARD continued his re­ researches on many large skull collections, both search on pottery from a reconnaissance of the here and abroad. A brief trip to Europe in the U sumacinta River drainage in Guatemala in the late summer added much new data to his study solitude of the Peabody basement, while Professors which, with the aid of computer analysis, is show­ J. 0. BREW and STEPHEN WILLIAMS "held ing very distinctive differences in small popula­ down the fort" for the Museum and Department tions both ancient and modern. respectively, with the unusual summer weather Not to be caught at home once classes were and the amazing Red Sox the main topics of over, and just over at that, Professor DAVID conversation. MAYBURY-LEWIS was off again to Brazil where he is involved in a series of studies of Brazilian rural populations. Sponsorship of much of his work has come from the NIH. NEW POST IN MUSEUM Professor CORA DUBOIS was back in India Following twenty years in the position, Profes­ again on her ten year research project on the sor J. 0. BREW has resigned as Director of the "modernizing" town of Bhubaneswar, Orissa. This Museum and will return to research pursi.1its as was traditionally a religious center which in 1946 Peabody Professor. Recently appointed Depart­ was selected as the site of the new state capital, ment Chairman, Professor STEPHEN WIL­ thus making it the center of a modern bureau­ LIAMS will serve as Acting Director. cracy. 3 RECORD NUMBER OF GRAD STUDENTS PH.D.'S IN ANTHROPOLOGY COME TO PEABODY 1966-67 When classes began on September 25th, thirty Bailit, Howard Leslie, The Influence of the Pre­ new first-year students, plus three Special Stu­ natal Environment on the Human Dentition dents, and three candidates for joint degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology, were Baldwin, Elizabeth E., The Obion Site: An Early crowding into the recently remodeled Department Mississippian Center in Western Tennessee office on the fifth floor of the Museum. In sheer Bracey, Dorothy Heid,"' The Effects of Emigra­ numbers this "class" exceeds by ten the previous tion on a Hakka Village high on admissions set last year, and probably sets a "highwater" mark for the Department that Briggs, Jean Louise,"' Utkuhiksalingmiut Eskimo Emotional Expression: The Patterning of Af­ will not be reached again in the foreseeable future. fection and Hostility Multiple applications and an extremely high per­ centage of acceptance has brought about this situ­ Crocker, Jon Christopher,"' The Social Organiza­ ation. With these new students the Department tion of the Eastern Bororo now has more than 80 students regularly enrolled Dincauze, Dena Ferran, Cremation Cemeteries in in residence and 30 actively on the books in Eastern Massachusetts "travel guidance" (off in the field or finishing their dissertations) making a staggering total of 113. Glass, John Burgess, A Survey and Census of Na­ tive Middle American Manuscripts Gradwohl, David Mayer, Prehistoric Villages in SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS Eastern Nebraska While space will not permit anything like a full listing of recent publications by staff mem­ Goldberg, Harvey Ellis,"' Acculturation, Continu­ bers, the following books show some of the variety ity, and Youth in an Israeli Immigrant Village of scholarly work currently available. Gransberg, Gary Robert,"' The Psychological Ef­ Professor WILLEY'S new text book, "An In­ fe_cts _of the Hopi Katchina Initiation troduction to American Archaeology," Vol­ Kils~-; Marion Dusser De Barenne,"' Urban Tribes­ ume One, North and Middle America (Pren­ men: Social Continuity and Change Among tice Hall). Volume Two on South America the Ga in Accra, Ghana is presently being written. Kirsch, Anthony Thomas,"' Phu Thai Religious A source book on physical anthropology Syncretism: A Case Study of Thai Religion edited by Professor HOWELLS, "Ideas on and Society Human Evolution," has just come out in a Muller, Jon David, An Experimental Theory of paperback edition (Atheneum No. 98). Stylistic Analysis Nelville, Melvin King, A Study of the Free-Hang­ A recent ethnographic work is Professor MAYBURY-LEWIS' Brazilian study, "Akwe­ ing Behavior of the Rhesus Monkeys Shavante Society," which has been brought Silver, Da'1iel Ben,"' Zinacanteco Shamanism out by Oxford: Clarendon Press. Simmons, William Scranton, Seers and Witches Among the Badyaranke of Senegal Dr. DAMON's volume in physical anthro­ pology in collaboration with H. W . Stoudt Stoltman, James Bernard, Groton Plantation, an and R. A. McFarland on "The Human Body Archaeological Study of a South Carolina Lo­ in Equipment Design" was published by the cality Harvard University Press and was awarded Turner, Joan Bamberger, Environment and Cul­ Honorable Mention in the Faculty Prize com­ tural Classification: A Study of the Northern petition, a project anonymously underwritten Kayapo by the late DONALD SCOTT, Peabody Pro­ fessor, Emeritus. "Degree granted by Social Relations Department HARVARD LEADS THE NATION GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH IN ANTHROPOLOGY PH.D.'S With more than 100 students now on the A recent survey of published lists of doctoral books, it is patently impossible to do anything dissertations indicates that Harvard has produced but sample the research activities in which these more Ph.D.'s in anthropology during the period graduate students are currently engaged.