Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Institute for Conservation Archaeology (ICA) will excavate a site under the Harvard Square subway entrance when construction begins there, if the state archaeologist at the Massachusetts Historical Commission approves the proposal...
...will begin only if Valerie Talmege, state archaeologist, considers the site to be archaeologically valuable. Rubbish trucked in from other areas to the dump site may cause problems in determining the origins of artifacts from the site. Talmege said last week, adding that this could be a reason for her not to approve...
...Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath of gold leaves and acorns hangs over a gold larnax, or chest, in which Philip II's bones might have lain. The tomb at Vergina in which these treasures were discovered was unearthed in 1977 by Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos. It may not actually be Philip's, but it is pleasant to think it is. In any case, Philip's head is exhibit No. 1 in the show. Even with the nose off, it is one fine head-wide-browed, witty, cross. Spencer Tracy could have...
Valerie Talmege, an archaeologist for the historical society, told Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) officials who proposed the plan that they will have to present other alternatives...
...American N.U.C. courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds: "One document...