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VOL, VIII NO.4THE ARCTIC CIRCULAR72adzes, and a number of new types of small arrow points, Thepottery is cordmarked, dentate stamped, and grooved paddle impreeeed,appearing in the order mentioned. All these kinds ofpottery appear in Siberia and in the Eastern Woodlands of NorthAmerica in roughly the same order. These ceramic remains fromthe Firth River may then represent a step in the diffusion of~siatic pottery to the more southerly regions in the New World.Eskimo remains occur in three different areas in the humus.These three cultures have tools adapted to a maritime way of life61ld lack burins and micro -blades. One includes check-stampedpottery and a number of other traits that seem to connect it withNear Ipiutak in western Alaska, which has been dated as about2,000 years old. The other two complexes, though having slightlydifferent harpoon and pottery types, may both be considered to beThule. Perhaps they are directly anceotrC'.l to the Eskimo found inhistoric times along the Yukon arctic coast.Archaeological excavations, supplemented by geologicalstudies, will be continued in 1956.DyUsh II.rchaeological expedition to Danmarks Fjord, northeastGreenland, summer 1955. By Eigil KnuthThe 1955 archaeological expedition to Danmarks Fjord,which was sponsored by the Danish National Museum, consisted ofonly two members: Kristen S4rensen, a rndio-operator from theRoyal Danish Navy, and myself as archaeologist.The expedition planned to map and to excavate palE'o -Eskimosites in the inner part of Danmarks Fjord, which had not beeninvestigated since the journeys of Mylius -ErichE: en and EjnarMikkelsen at the beginning of this century. We chose Cape Holbaek(ell., 8