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Garrulous Old Boy. North of the Bay of Pylos in Greece, the University of Cincinnati's Archeologist Carl William Blegen unearthed fire-scarred remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories...
Engaged. Oliver La Farge II, 38, archeologist, author who gave fine publicity to New Mexico in his Pulitzer-Prizewinning Laughing Boy; and Consuelo Otille ("Billie") Baca, 26, daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Pendaries Baca, onetime Secretary of State for New Mexico; in Santa...
While gathering brushwood for a fire to keep off the packs of wild dogs that roam the former site of London, an archeologist of the Royal Society of Abyssinia found an ancient, 20th-century thermos bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham...
...lucky thing for anthropology that Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...
...body bones are badly crushed and the back of the skull is bashed in, but the skull is otherwise in excellent shape, the jaws and teeth almost complete. Said Dr. Hrdlicka: "We had been hoping, but hardly daring to hope, for some such discovery, and now this young Soviet archeologist has done it. It shows that Neanderthal Man was widely spread over the Old World. For the first time it gives us evidence of a culture extending clear across Europe to the Far East...