Word: movius
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Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, associate professor of Anthropology, today announced his discovery of one of the largest and richest campsites of prehistoric man ever recorded in Western Europe...
Uncovered in the summer of 1953, the site has been dated in the Upper Paleolithic era, going back 18,000 to 25,000 years. Preliminary excavations, Professor Movius reported, unearthed a very large series of flint pieces and, more important, "better preserved and more complete mammalian material than as been recovered in recent years...
...fuller explanation of the "amazing fraud" was contained in a letter received yesterday by Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, associate professor of anthropology and curator of Palacolithic Archeology from Kenneth P. Oakley of the British Museum...
...Movius last night said he knows of "nothing like this in the history of Paleontology." Researchers in this field are normally "honest, virtuous peaple," he explained...
...Movius, an associate professor of Anthropology, brought the pebble to Harvard for examination. For two years, experts at Peabody tried to separate the innumerable lines that had been carved one atop the other. Despite complicated methods used, only the 14 animals could be definitely identified...