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Whenever U.S. archaeologists succeed in extending backwards the length of time that human beings have lived in North America, their European colleagues go them one better. Archaeologist James A. Ford recently reported traces of human settlement in northern Louisiana that he reckons to be 2,700 years old. Last week Professor Alberto Carlo Blanc announced the discovery of man-made tools near Rome "over 200,000 years...
...very much upset," he says. "I don't remember whether or not I recited the words well. But I remember referring to everybody, saying, 'Ego vos absolvo.' There was only one Protestant aboard-I think he was a German archaeologist. All he asked was whether the absolution was valid for him. 'Yes,' I answered, 'but everything depends on whether you have faith...
Meanwhile, in Palestine, a few miles from where Christianity was born, Dominican de Vaux, Archaeologist Harding and an international group of scientists and scholars are busy unraveling the crumbling scrolls, piecing together the tiny fragments, correlating texts. Current reports from Jerusalem tell of an important discovery that is still top secret, pending full evaluation. The work of the next ten to 50 years may open unsuspected possibilities for modern man, in the words of Dr. Cross, to "become 'contemporaries of Christ' in historical understanding and, with God's grace, also in the knowledge of faith...
Champagne Glass Trail. Archaeologist Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, tells in the Scientific American how British diggers uncovered Arzawa. First, Student James Mellaart reconnoitered southwestern Anatolia, looking for mounds, stones and bits of pottery. Some of the potsherds could be fitted together into graceful drinking vessels like champagne glasses. They led Mellaart, like bits of paper in a paper chase, to the centers of the long-forgotten culture, southeast of Istanbul...
Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolph, 72, flew to Britain for a week's prowling in museums and art galleries, wound up his stay by picking up an honor ary Doctor of Letters degree at Oxford University for his pioneering spadework as an archaeologist...