Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iranian Archaeologist Ezat Negahban and his crew dig spectacular ancient artifacts out of a low mound in the fertile Goha Valley, 186 miles northwest of Teheran. By night, they stand guard against raiding peasants, crooked local officials and stealthy professional thieves. The round-the-clock duty is wearing but necessary, for the location is one of the richest in archaeological history, and the entire valley around the mound has gone digger-daffy. Peasants are even uprooting their vines and fruit trees in a frantic search for ancient gold...
...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...
...unknown men requires great care and precision. Where each item is found will tell when in time it was last used. What objects it is near may give an indication of its use. To get all the information he can from the objects that do turn up, the archaeologist must uncover them slowly and methodically, and then exercise a combination of induction and educated guessing...
...removed by hand--or, in the case of a fragile item, with a dental extractor--and tossed into a basket with three compartments: for bones, for flint, and for river stones and pebbles. The stones go to a geologist, the bones to a paleontologist, and the flint to an archaeologist. The pale botanist takes a sample of dirt from eastrata, which he centrifuges to recover the pollen grains of plants which grad around the rock shelter thousands years...
...Scottish nanny, Sara Maden. Assuming the name of Lawrence, the two proved a faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence that he forswore sex. He turned to digging up the past as an archaeologist, becoming an expert on crusaders' castles, an Arabic linguist, and boon companion to Arabs, including handsome young Sheik Ahmed, who (Nutting notes) may be the subject of Pillars' dedicatory love poem. Currently, Nutting is acting as adviser to Hollywood Producer Sam Spiegel, now photographing a $6,000,000 epic...