Word: archaeologist
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...definitely other peoples' garbage we're going through here," says Stubbs, a Harvard archaeologist who recently received is Ph.D. Here...
...addition to digging in West Germany, Louisiana and northeastern Mississippi, he participated in Yard excavations in the summer between 1984 and 1947, when archaeologist looked for--and found--the first college building...
...archaeologist, unearthing relics is as incidental as filing tax returns. But last week an excavation among the ancient ruins of Copan, in western Honduras, turned up a find so extraordinary that archaeologists are digging for the proper superlatives to describe it. The discoverers believe that they have uncovered the tomb of a 6th century Mayan king who died before he was 30 years old. Archaeologists stumbled across the temple during a routine dig, and are now calling it the find of their careers. Five hundred tombs have been excavated at Copan during the past 18 years, but only two others...
Perhaps the most dramatic aspect of the discovery is the remarkable state in which the ceramic vases inside have been preserved. The colors are vibrant and the decorative motifs almost perfectly preserved. The vases are unique because they were stuccoed and then coated with paint, but not fired. One archaeologist called the condition of the pottery absolutely "shocking...
While the bright facade of Angkor Wat is a welcome change from the grim, mold-covered exteriors of the other temples, the procedure is controversial. Says a foreign archaeologist at Angkor: "Initially, the Indians were very careless. Much of the detail in the carving has been lost." But on balance, there is less criticism of the Indian efforts now than a few years ago. Says Pich Keo, director of the National Museum in Phnom Penh: "At least they came here and worked when no one else would come...