Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Israelis object to the strong influence of orthodoxy on the country's laws and mores. "After 25 years," says Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, "we have reached the point where, for a majority of our citizens, the rabbinical authority over our way of life is third in importance after defense and the economy. Most Israelis want a pluralistic system whereby those who want to be governed by religious law can voluntarily do so, and those who want secular law in matters of personal affairs can accept that...
...face carvings are ripped away with carbide-toothed power saws; cruder thieves use hammers, wedges or fire to split the irreplaceable sculptures into fragments for easy transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers...
...moved Flowerdew out of bucolic obscurity is a shrewd, self-taught archaeologist named Leverette Gregory. He suspected that Flowerdew might still harbor relics from the original Yeardley settlement, which is known from old chronicles to have been founded shortly after the first settlement at nearby Jamestown. Thus Gregory asked the farm's owners, New York Investment Banker David A. Harrison III and his wife, for permission to do a little spadework. He soon found pieces of exposed sandstone that were not native to the area and clearly cut and shaped by human hands. A little digging suggested that...
...miles northeast of Nice. The travelers all brought back tales of mysterious rock carvings, but no one could explain their origin. Were the ancient artists some Carthaginians who once lived in the region? Were they prehistoric men? Now, as a result of on-site study by a French archaeologist, the secrets of the carvings are beginning to come clear...
Died. Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey, 69, bluff, indomitable archaeologist who argued that his excavations added a million years to man's known presence on earth; of a heart attack; in London. From the Olduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania, Leakey and his wife, Mary, unearthed the 1.75 million-year-old remains of the Zinjanthropus (East Africa Man) in 1959. One year later they uncovered the slightly older remains of the Homo habilis, which Leakey identified as the first primitive tool-user. These discoveries, Leakey asserted, demonstrated that different species of men existed simultaneously and proved that their...