Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug up twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant...
...most part, archaeologists are scholars who work among ruins and study in musty museums, surrounded by books and bones. But in the Southwest, almost everybody is an archaeologist: Girl Scouts, G.I.s, Indians and postmen all have the digging fever. Cowhands hunting for straying cattle hunt for dinosaur bones. Gatherers of pine nuts look in the debris of anthills for the tiny turquoise beads of vanished early Americans...
When not busy selling stamps and sorting mail. Postmaster Shay kept digging systematically near Blackwater Draw. At last he found what looked like a human bone. He took it to Archaeologist Frank Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom...
Each year the digging fever grows. Archaeologist Emil Haury of the University of Arizona gets a stream of valuable finds from construction men, Indians and soldiers on maneuvers. Recently he was asked to speak before a meeting of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association to tell them what their cowhands should look for while out on the range. Besides giving advice, the archaeologists make a plea: don't mess up a promising site. Tell the professionals. They'll help you and give you credit...
...ancient gods in modern dress, and that one minor figure was a portrait of Keats. In effect, Wilder had bundled Rome's entire past into one package and labeled it "1920." This, says he, was something he learned at the American Academy: "If you have ever wielded an archaeologist's pickax, you are never the same again. You see Times Square as if it were an archaeological specimen 2,000 years from now." In the '20s, he seemed to be concerned with everything but America. In 1925-26 he took a year's leave from Lawrenceville...