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Something of a crime buff himself, Archaeologist Paul Aström made his unusual proposal at a recent colloquium in Athens. The assembled scholars were heatedly debating one of their favorite questions: When did the Indo-European people who became the classical Greeks invade the area and subdue the aboriginal populations? One school argues that it was as early as 5000 B.C.; another sets the date as late...
...absence of any written evidence dating back so far in time, Aström suggested, the archaeologists should begin collecting fingerprints from ancient pottery fragments and clay tablets. Aström's theory is based on the possibility-under increasing study by modern fingerprint experts-that individual races, nations, tribes display a distinctive overall pattern in the distribution of arches, loops and whorls. If an archaeologist came upon a sudden break in the fingerprint patterns of an ancient population, Aström argued, he could logically assume that it had been displaced or absorbed by invaders...
...article in the current Smithsonian magazine, and in a forthcoming book, Shanidar: The First Flower People (Knopf; $8.95), the expedition's chief archaeologist, Dr. Ralph S. Solecki, reports that at least one of the nine Neanderthal skeletons uncovered in the Shanidar cave was buried with flowers. Another skeleton was that of a man about 40 (equivalent to an age of 80 by modern life-spans) who had been born with a withered right arm. The limb had apparently been amputated above the elbow by a Neanderthal "surgeon." The man's age and physical condition indicated to the scientists...
...Oxford University scientist, who is also an amateur archaeologist, came to his conclusion during a recent sight-seeing trip to Egypt. Straying slightly off the beaten tourist path, Mendelssohn visited the great pyramid at Medûm, one of the first built by the Egyptians, about 50 miles south of Cairo. Although archaeologists have long ascribed the ruined condition of the nearly 5,000-year-old structure to the pilfering of masonry by subsequent generations of Egyptians, Mendelssohn calculated that most of the stone missing from the pyramid was still near by, lying in huge mounds of rubble surrounding...
...medium-Braque and Picasso were ahead of him. But when he began making his first assembled images in 1918, he managed to shift the function and look of collage far from its cubist origins. He rummaged through the trash cans of his native Hannover the way an archaeologist might pick over a buried midden heap, on the sound theory that a culture reveals itself in what it throws away. Schwitters was the first to make poetry of this fact, calling his collages "Merz-pictures." The word came from a fragment of paper he had glued on a collage...