Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Champagne Glass Trail. Archaeologist Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, tells in the Scientific American how British diggers uncovered Arzawa. First, Student James Mellaart reconnoitered southwestern Anatolia, looking for mounds, stones and bits of pottery. Some of the potsherds could be fitted together into graceful drinking vessels like champagne glasses. They led Mellaart, like bits of paper in a paper chase, to the centers of the long-forgotten culture, southeast of Istanbul...
Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolph, 72, flew to Britain for a week's prowling in museums and art galleries, wound up his stay by picking up an honor ary Doctor of Letters degree at Oxford University for his pioneering spadework as an archaeologist...
...questions of the world's experts. Both first came to light when they turned up in the hands of a Baghdad dealer four years ago. Spectrographic analysis suggests that they are very old indeed. Stylistic analysis places them anywhere and everywhere in the Middle East. So far, no archaeologist has claimed to know of anything quite like them. The statuettes remain as baffling as the day they first came out of the earth...
...lonely boyhood in Basel, started to learn Latin at six, and grew into what he was later to classify as "an introvert type with the dominant function of thinking." His first ambition was to become an archaeologist or paleontologist. "He's still thrilled at news of an excavation," says a disciple. "But we carry history inside us, too, and he's dug it up there...
...Archaeologist-Explorer Dr. Wendell Phillips, 33, of Concord, Calif., for his contributions to tropical medicine, paleontology and ethnology...