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...Archaeologist J. Reid Moir published further results of his per sistent excavations in limestone quarries near Ipswich, East Anglia. Flint tools found in a pre-Pliocene layer indicated that the history of man stretches much further back than is supposed. The site was northwards of the site where the Piltdown Man was discovered, on the shore of a warm North Sea which then had no outlet channel between France and England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona, Archaeologist Samuel Hubbard, of the Oakland (Calif.) Museum, financed by Edward L. Doheny, oilman, picked and shoveled the banks of the Colorado River seeking traces of an "apeman" with nine feet of vertebrae, including tail; twelve-legged dragons; animals answering Biblical descriptions. Digger Hubbard is unique in his profession. He hopes to prove Evolution wrong, the Bible right, about man's origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Bingham Robbed. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, onetime Governor of Connecticut, big-boned Honolulu-born Yankee, explorer, archaeologist, World War aviation Lieutenant-Colonel, onetime Yale professor, and father of seven sons (one of whom is studying Chinese in Peking) was set upon in his private car by Chinese soldiers last week, in Honan Province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Northward Advance | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Haven Putnam, daughter of Archaeologist-Artist Joseph Lindon Smith, who executed the mural decorations in the Boston Public Library and has made numerous excavations in Egypt; to William Ambrose Taylor Jr., onetime U, S. diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Colonel Lawrence is a vagabond about the world, and an archaeologist, who has a habit of getting lost. During the Great War he disappeared, only to be discovered at the head of 300,000 fighting men from the desert who were with Allenby at Jerusalem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

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