Word: archaeologist
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Whoever built stonehenge, that mysterious circle of stone boulders on Britain's Salisbury Plain, may have had a lot of company. Archaeologists have uncovered a large Neolithic settlement--possibly once home to hundreds of people--that dates from about 2,600 B.C. and shows, among other things, the outlines of beds and cupboards used by the potential builders of Stonehenge. Scientists have also unearthed an ancient stone road running from the settlement, which is enclosed by the lesser known Durrington Walls henge, to the nearby River Avon. A similar road connects the river to Stonehenge, which sits about two miles...
...Yale that Richard met her husband, Robert Dewar, an American archaeologist who earned his doctorate at Yale and taught at the University of Connecticut before coming with Richard to Cambridge, where he is now a research fellow...
...Savitsky Karakalpakstan State Art Museum, tel: (998-61) 222 2556. The few travelers who stumble upon it never fail to be stunned by the discovery. The museum is named after Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky, its first curator, appointed in 1966 when it was called the Nukus State Museum. A Ukrainian archaeologist, Savitsky could have used his tenure to simply grow the museum's collection of Karakalpak artifacts - which he did. But, far from the Soviet central government's prying eyes, he also embarked on a risky task: rescuing art that had been proscribed by the Stalinist regime. Although Stalin died...
...writes at Villers-Bretonneux. "You can hear the chatter of machine guns and the shouts of men on the ground." He doesn't see himself as a military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks out the details that bring the past, and the dead, to life. Brigadier-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor, describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan...
...scientists concluded that Flores man isn't a member of a distinct human species. They claim instead that the specimen is the remains of an unfortunate pygmy with a form of microcephaly, a developmental disorder that shrinks the head and brain. Homo floresiensis "are just like hobbits," sniffs archaeologist Alan Thorne, one of the authors of the PNAS paper. "They're the products of someone's imagination...