An American Contribution to Archæology ¹

Abstract

WE welcome this publication as fresh evidence of the activity of archteological study and research in the United States at the present time. Nearly every American university now has its department of archæology, and the labours of its members are no longer confined, as they were in great part until a few years ago, to the antiquities of Central America and Mexico, but now extend into the wider fields of original research on Greek and Oriental sites. The present volume well illustrates this extension in the scope of American archology, for while in the first article in the Transactions Mr. G. B. Gordon treats of the serpent motive in Mexican art, the five concluding papers deal with the results of the excavations in Crete and Babylonia carried on by the American Exploration Society and the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania.