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AAAH, remember lunches in the Union--those days when you sat, nibbling at your chickwich in a crowd of entry mates, staring up in awe at the antler chandeliers and wondering if Teddy Roosevelt really had anything to do with them? Well, cherish that memory if you're not a senior. Once first-year dining has moved over to Memorial Hall, you won't even have a Return-to-the-Union "Champagne Senior Brunch" to remind...
Breathe easy: the antler chandeliers aren't going anywhere. The bulbbedecked horns will flank an enormous staircase which will split the Great Hall (that's the main dining room to us) in two in order to provide more office space. "You'll have a remembrance and understanding of the past life [of the building]," says Buckley of the new design. Goody Clancy, the project architect, has planned the renovation so that "from the first floor, you'll be able to see what the hall once was." As for the chandeliers, "It's going to be a one-of-a-kind...
...work of early artists popped up in several corners of the globe. Archaeologists have found more than 10,000 sculpted and engraved objects in hundreds of locations across Europe, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia. The styles range from realistic to abstract, and the materials include stone, bone, antler, ivory, wood, paint, teeth, claws, shells and clay that have been carved, sculpted and painted to represent animals, plants, geometric forms, landscape features and human beings-virtually every medium and every kind of subject that artists would return to thousands of years later...
Archaeologists digging in southeastern Turkey have unearthed what appears to be the oldest piece of cloth ever found. The partly fossilized swatch measures 1 1/2 in. by 3 in., and was wrapped around the handle of a tool made from an antler. It's presumed to be linen, and it has been dated to about 7000 B.C., making it at least 500 years older than any other cloth previously discovered...
Although the age of the earliest objects from Meadowcroft remains controversial, this rock shelter 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh has long been considered one of North America's most promising pre-Clovis sites. Among the findings: charcoal, pieces of bone and antler (some scored with knife marks) and charred fragments of basketry that are estimated to be between 12,000 and 15,000 years old. There is also an assortment of non-Clovis blades and points. Says Mercyhurst's Adovasio, who has studied Meadowcroft for nearly 20 years: "It may well be the oldest archaeological site in North America...