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...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...
...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...
...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...