Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-day Chocolate Binge Weekend, attended by 150 chocophiles last February at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y. ($183), featured chocolate treats ad nauseam, as well as counsel by Philadelphia Psychiatrist Roy Fitzgerald and his wife, Anthropologist Jennie Keith (sample subject: Does one eat chocolate before or after...
...American anthropologist named Greenwood spends several years with the Shan people in Pawlu, a tiny village near the border between China and Burma. He marries and fathers a daughter before news of World War II belatedly reaches him, driving him from his remote adopted home to join the U.S. Army and the larger struggle. In 1949, back in the U.S., he receives a letter from Yang Yulin, a wartime comrade who is now a general in the Chinese Nationalist army. Yang has got hold of an anthropological treasure, the bones of Peking Man. He will flee the advancing Communist troops...
...name was inspired by the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which the scientists were playing on a tape recorder the night of the find.) White, in any case, has every reason to be cautious. In 1979 he and the leader of the Lucy expedition, Anthropologist Donald Johanson, touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other East African fossils into a single new species, which they called Australopithecus afarensis (apeman from Afar). These Lucy-type creatures, they said, were common ancestors of two distinct hominid lines-the australopithecines, which presumably died...
Their proposal was quickly | disputed by Anthropologist Richard Leakey. He said that White and Johanson's large afarensis males and small females were more likely two entirely different species that lived side by side some 3 million years ago. The temper of the debate was not helped by Johanson's 1981 book Lucy, which discussed the activities of the Leakey family in an intimate, gossipy way. Though the discovery of what may be an older version of Lucy seems to bolster the case for afarensis, partisans on both sides of the debate agree that more fossils will have...
That additional evidence could also come from the Awash River valley. Last fall's expedition found the area Uttered with fossils - remnants of elephants, hippos and pigs -some of them dating back 6 million years. Says Anthropologist Clifford Jolly of N.Y.U.: "There seems to be enough material there for 20 expeditions." One of them will be led by Clark. This fall, he plans to return to Awash in hopes of push ing "knowledge of human origins even deeper into the past." And perhaps un earthing even humbler skeletons in the human closet. - By Frederic Golden. Reported by Tom Johnson/San...