Abstract
AMONG numerous evidences of increased interest in the United States of America in the antiquities of the continent and the origin, character and cultures of its earlier inhabitants is the fact that research in branches of study bearing upon such problems is no longer confined mainly to the more influential and populous intellectual centres, with their widely known and strongly supported universities, museums and other learned bodies. Local research, and even investigations implicating extended ramifications, are now appearing with regularity in the departmental studies of universities and academic institutions in the outlying and remoter States. Financial support, however, at least so far as concerns investigation in the field, is not always readily to be obtained, and various economies have to be practised. If these affect publication, as indeed frequently happens, results of importance may be overlooked, especially in Great Britain, where, unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult for archaeologists to keep fully abreast with the progress of such research in America. Owing, however, to the financial limitations to which reference has been made, an index to activity in research, naturally not in archaeology only, which alone is under consideration here, is afforded by the reports of bodies administering the various funds, to which scientific research in America is in the fortunate position of being able to look for support. Among such bodies, the American Philosophical Society takes a prominent place, owing to the value of the funds under its control, while the accounts of the researches it subsidizes which appear in the Year Book, brief as they are, are a valuable guide to the trend of scientific investigation in widely extended fields throughout the academic world of the United States.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Recent Researches in American Archæology. Nature 145, 558–559 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145558a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145558a0