Word: archeologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Excavators decided to core the well when a test core taken last Thursday revealed that the small artifacts in the well did not merit costlier hand excavation, Gray C. Graffan, project archeologist at the institute, said yesterday...
What a sight--and what an opportunity. I was all ready to find our steps buried under the snow. With the great expectations characteristic of an ardent archeologist of ancient sites, I came tooled and ready...
...Marshall McKusick, state archeologist of Iowa, wrote a book called The Davenport Conspiracy in which he assembled the massive evidence of a fraud. Included was testimony by Davenport residents that the objects were manufactured in the basement of the Davenport Academy, the headquarters of an amateur scientific society similar to many that existed in nineteenth century America...
Fell's responses to the objections raised by the professional archeologists always refer back to his claimed expertise in linguistics. "Yes," he admits, "anyone can make similar artifacts, but similar languages? The chances of the same words evolving in two separate languages are infinitesimal." His archeology may not be so good, "but I'm an epigrapher, not an archeologist. They say I'm trying to be an archeologist. Naturally, I don't have the credentials, so they dismiss...
...Yale's Old Campus were: Garretson B. "Gary" Trudeau, creator of the comic strip "Doonesbury" and a recent Yale College graduate; Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist who received a similar award from Harvard two years ago; William T. Coleman Jr., U.S. Secretary of Transporation; and Mary D. Leakey, the archeologist...