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Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
...Swahili course was proposed in conjunction with Project Tanganyika. Since the project will require that the 26 students going to Tanganyika all speak Swahili, the nation's native language, Phillip C. Gulliver, an associate professor of Anthropology at Boston University and former Government anthropologist for Tanganyika, was selected to teach the course...
Arthritis & Wounds. Writing for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the surgeon-anthropologist describes how he got Joseph Farland, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, to talk the Dominicans into opening the tomb in 1959. "With exacting protocol, three keys, a special committee including the Archbishop, scholars, Dominican scientists, state officials and, of course, a crowd of curious tourists, the bronze gates and sepulcher doors were unlocked. The crystal-covered ancient lead coffin with its bony contents was placed before me. In the high, arched cathedral nave, through open doors. I had my chance to settle once...
Around Estrada's recently published discoveries, the old argument is brewing anew. Unconvinced, Anthropologist Matthew Stirling, long with the Smithsonian, says that headrests are worldwide, and people living in similar climates are apt to have similar house designs. As for the Buddha-like figurines: "There are only a few ways," says Stirling, "for a human being to sit down." Harvard Anthropologist Gordon Willey is also skeptical. Says Willey: "The high American civilizations from Mexico to Peru had been rolling for 1,500 to 2,000 years before this possible Asiatic migration...
...throw ridicule on me and my people. In the article [about Anthropologist Paul Barker's dealings with Haitians while digging for evidence of the civilization Columbus described-Oct. 10, you and Professor Paul Barker depicted my people as the worst uncivilized savages. And that [the god] Dambala removes strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. This is not true. Instead, Professor Barker's job in Haiti was not especially tough...