A point with oblique parallel flaking was found in an eroded field on high ground, 2½ miles north of the Missouri River near Kansas City, Mo. Chert flakes scattered over the site indicate occupation over several acres but no other artifacts from the site are now available for study. The location and the eroded condition of this site are similar to those of the Nebo Hill Complex (J. M. Shippee, Nebo Hill, A Lithic Complex In Western Missouri, American Antiquity, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 29-32, 1948), but nothing else links them except the presence of the light colored chert flakes.

In the early literature, especially that relating to the prairies, there are numerous brief references to the extraction of oil or grease from bones by boiling. For instance, W. R. Gerard in his article on pemmican in Bulletin 30 of the Bureau of American Ethnology says: “Sweet pemmican is a superior kind of pemmican in which the fat used is obtained from marrow by boiling broken bones in water.” Wissler in his paper on the Material Culture of trte Blackfoot Indians says: “Marrow fat was obtained by boiling cracked bones and skimming the floating fat from the top of the kettle with a dipper made of horn.” A still earlier reference to the same process is found in Schoolcraft's History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes (Vol. 4, p. 107) in which he says: “The men break bones, which are boiled in water to extract the marrow to be used for frying and for other culinary purposes. The oil is then poured into the bladder of the animal, which contains when filled about twelve pounds, being the yield of the marrow bones of two buffaloes.”

The Amerind Foundation, Inc. spent the first three weeks of December, 1948, excavating a ball court at the archaeological site of Arizona:BB:15:3, which is located in Cochise County, Sec. 20, T15S, R20E. The actual village area is located on the west bank of the San Pedro River twenty-two miles north of the city of Benson at an approximate elevation of 3300 feet.

The ball court was located in the north half of the village on a terrace some forty feet above the river channel. It appeared as a shallow but conspicuous oval depression which was overgrown with mesquite trees and other desert flora of the Sonoran plateau type. Fortunately the court had not been disturbed by any previous excavations nor by erosion (Fig. 86, a).

Up to the present no fluted points have been discovered in Ontario. A small number having some affinities to the type have been found in various parts of the Province, but none has come to light under conditions of controlled excavation. It is with a view to making available what information there is concerning those we have that this note is submitted and the illustrations published. The originals of all those shown, in addition to three not illustrated, are in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology at Toronto.

Wendell C. Bennett was kind enough to call attention to an error in my recent review of his and Bird's Andean Culture History (American Antiquity, Vol. 16, No. 2, October, 1950, pp. 170-172) which I would like to correct. In discussing the spatial division of the Central Andes I tried to reconstruct the sequence of Bennett's ideas on the subject and made the assumption that order of publication reflected order of composition. This assumption is always dangerous and, in making it in this case, I overlooked the preface date of the work under review. The fact of the matter is that the manuscript of Andean Culture History was completed and submitted to the American Museum of Natural History before the Viking Fund symposium of July, 1947 was held. Hence, Bennett's contributions to the symposium volume (SAA-M No. 4, 1948) represent a later and not an earlier stage in the development of his ideas. Herewith my public apology for the misrepresentation.

The recent publication (Griffin, J. W., Ed., 1949) of a series of papers delivered at a conference held at Rollins College in 1949 demonstrates the increasing potentiality of synthesizing the data of American archaeology. It is undoubtedly to be expected that the preliminary stages of synthesis will lead to some conflict of opinion, but this should be regarded as a healthy sign of growing interest.

This is written as a warning to archaeological field workers whose excavations may yield pottery decorated by the resist-painted technique. Such a technique, often called negative painting, consists of painting a design on a slipped vessel in some substance, presumably hot wax, that is resistant to paint. The vessel is then painted over in another color, or smoked. The resistant substance is removed, and the design stands out light against a dark background.

In September 1949 I presented a short paper at the International Congress of Americanists in which I claimed that the calendar outlined in the first 14 pages of the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin corroborated my correlation between the Maya and Christian timecounts. The new correlation,'derived from astronomical data in the Dresden Codex, equates 13.0.0.0.0 to B. C. 3374 March 10 Julian. Spinden's “Ahau Equation” places the basic date 246 days later, whereas the Goodman-Thompson correlation places it 260 years later, at B. C. 3114 September 7. At the close of the paper, Mr. Linton Satterthwaite, Jr. kindly remarked that archaeologists would reserve judgment until a translation of the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin was published.

There is little doubt that the archaeologist in marginal areas who attempts to interpret his finds may be led to false conclusions if he accepts at face value statements concerning ranges of species whose remains he discovers in village refuse. He should remember that in nature living beings are not subject to marshalling behind sharply defined limits, but will almost inevitably be found outside the accepted “range,” either because of migration or isolated occurrence which has not been recorded.

Our findings to date indicate that the archaeology of the Fraser Delta region is far more complicated than Harlan I. Smith or even Philip Drucker anticipated. Every major site investigated so far has a distinctive character. At some of them culture sequences are clearly apparent.

Harpoon points are being recognized as important diagnostic elements. Three main classes can be distinguished: 1, barbed harpoons with tang (Pt. Grey, Marpole); 2, one-piece toggles (Locarno Beach); 3, twopiece toggles (Whalen, Musqueam). Two-piece toggles are present at sites with historic (Musqueam) and protohistoric (Whalen) horizons, but conspicuously absent at sites where very old (500 + years) coniferous trees grow on the deposits (Pt. Grey, Marpole, and probably Locarno Beach).