Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Wendell Phillips, 54, flamboyant archaeologist-oil baron who headed the Wendell Phillips Oil Company; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. A onetime newspaper boy who studied paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, Phillips accumulated a fortune estimated at $120 million. By his own account, his rise began when he visited Oman in 1952 on an archaeological expedition. There, said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area...
...Millon, have spent years mapping the city and collecting more than a million artifacts, mostly pottery shards and tools but also human and animal remains. After identifying and cataloguing the pieces from each location, the scientists ran their data through a series of computer programs designed by Physicist turned Archaeologist George Cowgill of Brandeis University. These enable them to determine, for example, if a particular site was the home of a priest, the quarters of an artisan, or the shop of a merchant, and to figure out how the city evolved...
...animals. How they kept records remains a mystery; researchers have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...
...conversant in two others. After a brief period of squiring Italy's high-living Princess Maria Gabriella, he settled down at 24 with a bride more suitable to his naturally subdued and by now almost melancholy temperament: Princess Sophia of Greece, a Girl Scout chief captain, amateur archaeologist and pediatric nurse. With their three children-Elena, 11, Cristina, 10, and Felipe, 7-the royal couple now live at state expense in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace, a modern residence surrounded by formal flower gardens and well protected by police...
There is no greater test of character than bad luck-except, British Novelist Margaret Drabble suggests, good luck. The heroine of her latest novel owns a cornucopia: money, a handsome London house, a triumphant career as an archaeologist, four well-behaved children, a liberating divorce and a sensitive lover. She is also afflicted with an abundance of 20th century guilt. What has she done to deserve all this? she muses. "Her grandfather had grown tomatoes and potatoes. Her father had studied newts and become a professor of zoology. And for herself, as a result of their labors, the world...