Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desert Varnish. Anthropologist Carter uses an odd geological time-recorder to support his theory that the Folsom or Sandia hunters invaded a long-inhabited hemisphere. On the deserts of Southern California, many firmly rooted stones are covered with dark brown "desert varnish." No one is sure how this is formed or how long it takes to form, but Folsom-type spearheads found on the desert never show more than a trace of it. The crude weapons of simpler folk are often varnished thickly, and the cruder they are, the darker is the varnish. This is pretty good proof, Carter thinks...
...ridiculous," replied Dr. Javier Romero, anthropologist at Mexico's National Museum. "True, Cortés' legs were slightly bowed, as are those of most habitual horsemen, but it is impossible to determine from the skull whether the man was balding, whiskered, cross-eyed and humpbacked...
Jarmo, discovered in 1948 by an expedition led by Anthropologist Robert J. Braidwood of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, covers the area of a modern city block. Enough of it was excavated this year to give a good idea of life in the earliest farm days...
...collaboration with British-born Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Swiss-born Dr. Jurgen Ruesch has written Communication, the Social Matrix of Psychiatry (Norton; $4.50), in an attempt to tie insanity and psychiatry with communication engineering and other sciences (among them, cybernetics) into a single system. Samples from Ruesch's chapters...
...multiplicity of the human creation. Kierkegaarde, the great Dane, the greatest of the Danes, wrote in his journal in 1844 that he had an anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the aborigine. He put it in his journal and his reflection follows: "I carried that to an anthropologist friend of mine and he said. 'How childish! How childish! Three and four times that many fully responsible human beings have lived and died...