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Toth notes that in several runs through the experiment, Kanzi always used the chip to cut toward himself, an observation that might help Toth better understand the first tools of Homo habilis some 2 million years ago. "For a Stone Age archaeologist like myself, seeing this is almost like a religious experience," says Toth, whose university awarded Kanzi a prize for providing the most insight into the origins of technology...
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN'S "DISCOVERY" 120 YEARS ago of mythic Troy has always gone into the close-but-no-cigar category. Excavating on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so outsize a legend...
Last week the archaeologist got some impressive support. An international team of researchers announced that a new magnetic survey has revealed a 14- ft.-thick clay wall about 1,300 ft. south of Schliemann's dig. His find now appears to be the dwelling site of the city's rulers; the still buried wall probably marks Troy's true boundaries and might be the very wall that Achilles reputedly chased Hector around three times. Archaeologists intend to excavate the barrier, which lies 6 to 10 ft. underground, this summer. Still missing are any signs of the Trojan horse...
...films themselves rearranged in chronological order, THE GODFATHER TRILOGY: 1901-1980 (Paramount; $199.95) amounts to a kind of cinema archaeology in which the skeleton of some great creature is brought forth from the past to stand on exhibit. This Godfather may not look the same, but when the archaeologist in charge is Francis Coppola, the object is not literal reconstruction but further improvement. If only nature got as many second chances as movie directors. This trilogy has a novelistic density, a rueful, unhurried lyricism and a depth that, singly, the films could not achieve. Altogether glorious...
...matter, in millenniums to come, right up to the 20th century. Yet the Aborigines were ingeniously adapted to their environment, and around Iceman's time they took two important steps forward. The first was the semidomestication of dingoes, wild dogs introduced from Asia and employed mostly as social companions. Archaeologist Josephine Flood believes that the dogs served as an object of affection and a child substitute in a society that killed babies it could not afford to feed (the dogs foraged for themselves; they were probably also used for hunting). The second, and more profound, breakthrough: for the first time...