Word: archeologists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carl Lomen at 48 is tall and slim with greying hair. His activities are many. He is a book and stamp collector, an ardent archeologist, but reindeer are his greatest hobby. His wife (they were married in October 1928) was Laura Volstead, daughter of the Father of Prohibition. Last summer she, now only passively interested in politics, spent her time flying from herd to herd with her husband. It is one of Carl Lomen's theories that reindeer herding can be done by airplane...
That single archaic skull and the commingled bones of the ten bodies and their limbs, all fossilized, scientific diggers recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...
From interesting Santa Fe, N. Mex.,* scampered Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week,† with a new nubble in the crown of his fame. Henceforth he must be considered the U. S.'s first flying archeologist, for the week before he initiated in the neighborhood of Santa Fe the first formal attempts of U. S. archeologists to locate digging sites by aerial photographs...
...principal discovery which was made during the season at Uaxactun in the Maya field consisted of an important stucco covered pyramid probably dating from about 72 B. C.," said Dr. Sylvanus Griswald Morley '07, archeologist and Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to a CRIMSON reporter recently...
Professor Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared...