Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revelations may seriously undermine confidence in the use of recently bought antiquities to describe past civilizations. In particular, the forgeries could lead to distrust of current archaeological concepts about ancient Anatolian culture. The Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia...
...David Kovac (Elliott Gould) is an American archaeologist born in Germany and educated in Israel, who has learned a good deal about the past and almost nothing of his own psyche. He is alternately childish and brutal, contemptuous and suffocatingly possessive. He tells Karin shortly after their first meeting that he is in love with her. She is frightened but flattered. She visits him at his apartment, but that afternoon he is impotent. Later he has her for the first time by abusing and almost raping...
Something of a crime buff himself, Archaeologist Paul Aström made his unusual proposal at a recent colloquium in Athens. The assembled scholars were heatedly debating one of their favorite questions: When did the Indo-European people who became the classical Greeks invade the area and subdue the aboriginal populations? One school argues that it was as early as 5000 B.C.; another sets the date as late...
...absence of any written evidence dating back so far in time, Aström suggested, the archaeologists should begin collecting fingerprints from ancient pottery fragments and clay tablets. Aström's theory is based on the possibility-under increasing study by modern fingerprint experts-that individual races, nations, tribes display a distinctive overall pattern in the distribution of arches, loops and whorls. If an archaeologist came upon a sudden break in the fingerprint patterns of an ancient population, Aström argued, he could logically assume that it had been displaced or absorbed by invaders...
...article in the current Smithsonian magazine, and in a forthcoming book, Shanidar: The First Flower People (Knopf; $8.95), the expedition's chief archaeologist, Dr. Ralph S. Solecki, reports that at least one of the nine Neanderthal skeletons uncovered in the Shanidar cave was buried with flowers. Another skeleton was that of a man about 40 (equivalent to an age of 80 by modern life-spans) who had been born with a withered right arm. The limb had apparently been amputated above the elbow by a Neanderthal "surgeon." The man's age and physical condition indicated to the scientists...