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Last summer Dr. Lehmann's workers attacked a shapeless mound near one of the larger buildings. Back in Manhattan last week, Archaeologist Lehmann described the results. Under the rubble they found a well-preserved stucco floor which had been painted red and later green. This, they decided, was the storehouse for votive gifts. Some of the gifts were still there, imbedded in cracks in the floor. Among them were a gold ring, a large silver nail, parts of gilded bronze statues. The style of the building showed that it dated from pre-Greek times, when the Great Gods were...
Last February, Dr. Carleton ("Cannonball") Coon, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist who had made a specialty of Iran, revisited the area around Ghar Hotu.* In semidarkness, assorted Iranian laborers and kibitzers, directed by Dr. Coon and his young (25) Harvard assistant, Louis Dupree, stripped layer after layer from the surface of the cave. At the Iron Age layer they turned up arrowheads, pins and pottery. The Bronze Age yielded javelin heads, rings and vases. Deeper down they found fine painted crocks, and then "software Neolithic," probably the oldest plain Neolithic pottery on record...
...hamlet of Kabarta, but not too seen for him to have already stumbled onto a gun-running racket when his car was blocked by a landslide during a heavy rainstorm. Anouk's brother Max turns out to be mixed up with the gang, so the love affair between the archaeologist and the barmaid gets awfully massy...
Kidder, in honor of whom the medal is named, is a member of the faculty of Peabody Museum. John O. Brow, director of the Peabody Museum, said last night that, "Dr. Kidder is America's foremost living archaeologist...
...only Indian tribe that was getting some back pay, long overdue. The Indian Claims Commission ruled last week that the Government owes the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians $3,489,843.58 for Oklahoma lands taken by treaty at the end of the Civil War. The Navajos hired an archaeologist to help document their claim of approximately $10 million for 20,000 square miles in the Southwest...