Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school of government, if a person leaves, it could only help us when they return," Carnesale said. "It's like sending an archaeologist into the field. It's germaine to what they do and teach... As long as there are not too many [on leave] at one time...
...Philistines' battered reputation is in the process of being repaired. The revisionist view is emerging from the dust of the ancient city of Ekron, 20 miles west of Jerusalem, where archaeologists are busy excavating what was probably the greatest of the five Philistine city-states. The big news from the site is that the Philistines, whatever may have been said about them, were in fact one of the most highly civilized peoples of their time. They were successful industrialists and merchants, skilled producers of pottery and metal tools, sophisticated architects and town planners. "While they existed," says Archaeologist Seymour Gitin...
...discoveries include parts of a 200-ft. stern-wheel steamboat, a 175-ft. wooden coal barge and another 140-ft. wooden barge. These relics excite historians because no large boats of the era, nor even their construction drawings, survive. Contends Archaeologist Leslie Stewart-Abernathy, who heads the project: "When we think about the Mississippi, we've got to get beyond the image of the river gambler and think about the guys who built the boats." Without them, there would have been a lot less life on the once romantic river...
...remote island in the Adriatic, the film's plot centers on Pascali (Ben Kingsley), a part Turkish eccentric and informer for the Sultan who agrees to translate for Mr. Bowles, a visiting archaeologist (Charles Dance.) Bowles makes his living by obtaining a lease on land, then tricking its owners into buying it back at an exorbitant price. But this time, he really finds something on the property and refuses to sell it back when the Pasha who owns it gets suspicious. Pascali as the interpreter, is held repsonsible, and he finds himself in a bit of a bind...
...Previously we would not have dared to think a cuisine 4000 years old was so advanced," Bottero wrote in the March 1985 issue of Biblical Archaeologist magazine...