of prehistoric peoples, the evolutionary history of man, including the evolution of his special attributes, the characteristics and subdivisions of the three great races of man and their movements and dispersal. The appendix contains a chronologic table of the movements of man, of the geologic epochs and culture periods and a glossary. Without this glossary the lay reader would be seriously han...

not the slightest doubt that the prehistoric child had his head slapped for rattling mammoth's bones when his father was trying to sleep, but they have been confined almost entirely to complaints against noise during the recognized sleeping hours. Complaints against noise during the day time have only come from the sick, and when an apparently healthy man in the street raised his voice (as he w...

Tracing interisland and interarchipelago movements of people and artifacts in prehistoric Polynesia has posed a challenge to archaeologists due to the lack of pottery and obsidian, two materials most readily used in studies of prehistoric trade or exchange. Here we report the application of nondestructive energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis to the sourcing of Polynesian artifa...

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS is one of the diseases at the forefront of medical interest at the present time. This renewed interest is largely due to the exciting discovery that approximately ninety-five per cent ofindividuals with ankylosing spondylitis possess a human leucocyte associated antigen (HLA antigen) shown as HLA-B27.1,2 We considered that a critical evaluation of the literature of spinal...