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Archaeology and Relief124

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

F. M. Setzler  and
W. D. Strong
F. M. Setzler
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.
W. D. Strong
Affiliation:
Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
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In December 1933, under the Civil Works Administration, a number of archaeological projects were organized with the primary purpose of reducing unemployment. The scientific direction of these particular emergency measures was given to the Smithsonian Institution which, since its founding in 1846, has carried on much important prehistoric research for the National Government. In the nature of the case it was the primary purpose of the C.W.A. to set a large number of unemployed persons to work with the least possible delay, while it was the duty and desire of the Smithsonian Institution to see that the scientific results attained might be as extensive and complete as the unusual opportunity warranted. The present article aims to sum up briefly the nature and results of these particular projects and their bearing on the wider problems of scientific archaeology as a channel for relief employment.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , April 1936 , pp. 301 - 309
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1936

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Footnotes

124

Reprinted with permission from The American Scholar, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 109-117, 1936.

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124 Reprinted with permission from The American Scholar, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 109-117, 1936.