Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret room in the bowels of the pyramidal "Temple of Inscriptions" at Palenque is probably "the most sumptuous mortuary chamber in the western hemisphere." The six skeletons which Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier found there last summer (TIME, July 7) had almost surely been offered up to an ancient Indian deity. But Dr. Ruz had a hunch that the sacrificial stone, encrusted with Mayan hieroglyphics, might be more than a great altar. Before he could investigate further, money ran out and the rains came...
...once-thriving Lough Gara crannogs, one of the largest concentrations of Stone Age lake dwellings in Europe, offer a field day to an Irish archaeologist. Now that the drainage project is finished, the lake level will remain constant. Raftery, whose work had only begun, can concentrate on filling in another page of his country's history...
...evidence he has gathered suggests to Archaeologist Raftery that the crannogs were inhabited at three separate times: by New Stone Age men around 2500 B.C., by Late Bronze Age men 2,000 years afterwards, and by a settlement of early Christians. Perhaps a sudden rise in the water level wiped out the first settlement. Perhaps a change in local conditions made the island dwellings with their connecting zigzag causeways unneccessary as refuges...
Where did human society begin? Father Jesus Carballo, 76-year-old priest-archaeologist, believes that it might have had its start near his own parish in Santander, on the north coast of Spain. Father Carballo is chief explorer of Mt. Castillo, a prehistoric cave city where ancient man lived some 12,000 years ago while the glaciers crawled over Europe. After nearly 50 years of work, he has found the heart of the city, deep inside the mountain...
...school. The location of his find is no longer a secret; American collectors are already nosing around the camp site. And Ontario, oddly, has no antiquities law to protect archaeological diggings from looters. "Practically every ancient trace of man found in Ontario has gone across the border," says the archaeologist sadly. "[U.S. dealers] take artifacts back, claiming them at the border as souvenirs. Then they sell them at high prices . . . If this site is destroyed, I'm afraid I'll just quit the business altogether...