Word: archaeologist
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Died. Frans Blom, 69, Danish explorer and archaeologist who went to Mexico in 1922, was so intrigued by the ruins of the ancient Mayas and by their nearly extinct descendants that he settled near the Guatemalan border, authored works on the Mayas (Tribes and Temples), raised two children from a Stone Age tribe in his home, training them in the ways of modern man so they could return as teachers to their people; of pneumonia; in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico...
Protected Treasure. The invention of Aqua-Lungs, says University of Pennsylvania Archaeologist George F. Bass in The American Scholar, has opened rich opportunities for students of the past. Ever since the Stone Age. says Bass, men have sailed the Mediterranean. Often their ships came to grief, carrying to the bottom samples of the goods and treasures of each period of history. Under the deep, still water, the wrecks and their cargoes rested for thousands of years, protected from the plundering hands of later generations...
Over $1 million has been left to the University by Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter, the widow of a Harvard archaeologist, whose will was filed for probate yesterday...
...first prehistoric burial discovered at Sardis came to light a short distance south of the synagogue. On the very last day of the excavation, an archaeologist found a jar lying on its side at the bottom of a 35-foot pit. Fragments of bone showed traces left by fire...
...archaeologist's kit, there are more than a dozen other methods that allow him to date the objects he unearths. By measuring the electron emissions from reheated pottery with extremely sensitive instruments, scientists are able to determine when the pottery was first fired. This technique, called thermoluminescence, was used to date Greek pot shards from the Agora, near Athens, back to the 9th century...