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Honored at the convocation were Ginsburg,President of the Spencer Foundation Patricia A.Graham, social scientist Matilda W. Riley '31,archaeologist and ethnologist Doris Z. Stone '30,and Niara Sudarkasa, the president of LincolnUniversity...
Since scientific names don't come from pop songs, Lucy was given the tongue- challenging classification Australopithecus afarensis. Many more remains of the species have turned up, including beautifully preserved footprints found in the mid-1970s in Tanzania by a team led by the famed archaeologist Mary Leakey. Set in solidified volcanic ash, the footprints confirmed that Lucy and her kin walked like humans. Some of the A. afarensis specimens date back about 3.9 million years B.P. (before the present), making them the oldest known hominid fossils...
...here to educate the public...gather some recruits, and to see what other scientists are doing," said Edward Bird, an underwater archaeologist...
...fact, Stager came to the museum with an enormous interest in the traditional archaeological and teaching tasks of the Museum, for which it was founded, for the exploration of the ancient Near East, and for the academic training of a new generation of archaeologists in the field, as well as for its public exhibits of artifacts won in the field work of the museum. Indeed in the raising of the endowment for the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, one of the chief arguments made to the donor was the desperate need for a distinguished archaeologist to give leadership...
...extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern and European. I shall quote only one letter, that of Robert McCormick Adams, the distinguished anthropologist...