Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...researches of Professor Guildi necessarily resembled those of a detective as much as an archaeologist. Three months ago a tourist picked up in Cyrene a fragment of an old bust and brought it to Rome; Guidi set out with his assistants, and for three months sifted the shallow loam of the old coast town for other fragments. Piece was laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet...
...look at the grotesque faces decorating the four corners of Muyil's highest temple would alone incline the archaeologist to the opinion that Muyil is not a First Empire city. Such faces or "mask panels" are common in Maya architecture; but in the southern and older area the details of the face are generally built up of stucoo, whereas in the northern and later area they are in relief. These faces at Muyil are in relief that is, cut into the walls...
...Some recent discoveries," continued the archaeologist, "in fact, the ones on which I lectured at the Fogg Museum, have been made in Northern China by a Russian, Colonel Kozlov. These discoveries consist of a number of early tombs all dating from about the first century before our era which contained an enormous number of textiles in a truly remarkable state of preservation." Professor Pelliot then went on to describe the tombs more in detail...
...harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced by the Peabody Museum two years ago and new completed, seem to us quite as romantic as any ever undertaken by an archaeologist. --The Nation...
...scene was the western tip of the Seip Mound, near Bainbridge, Ohio. The diggers, Curator Harry C. Shetrone and Director C. W. Mills of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (Columbus), and Archaeologist Gerard Fowke, of Maysville, Ky. The remains seemed to be those of royal personages among the ancient Mound Builders-a late Stone Age race that threw, up its totemic burial tumuli from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...