Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personnel of the new addition to the over-crowded Hygiene Building has been drawn from both Harvard and outside sources and a physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, physiologist, anthropologist, social worker, and two secretaries...
Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking man), of receding, apelike chin and human brain case and teeth, who is approximately the same age as Pithecanthropus. His skull was discovered near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist...
...years old. Not long ago a London dentist and amateur archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found in gravel at Swanscombe, Kent some human skull fragments which he thought to be of antiquity comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull...
Died. Dr. Leo Frobenius, 65, explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist; at Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 1912, Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings on the first of his twelve African expeditions, subsequently became recognized as a top-rank authority on prehistory. Selections from the mammoth Frobenius collection at Frankfurt-am-Main were last year giving a whopping exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME...
...party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...