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...below the site of the Senate, near the Acropolis, he came upon a Mycenaean cemetery which he dated at 1500 B. C. Surrounded by wine jars, remains of food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might prove to be among the most important in a decade. Dr. Shear planned to ship one of the skeletons, protected by wax, to anthropologists of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History in the hope that its exact age and race affiliation could...
Married. Sir Charles Marston. 68. retired British bicycle manufacturer, archeologist and Bible scholar, backer of the Wellcome expedition which last month turned up twelve potsherds at Tel ad Duweir (TIME, March 25); and Mrs. Mary Battey Bonney, director of the American Women's Association; in Manhattan...
Claude Vannec, a young French archeologist who feels himself an Ishmael, is on his way to Cambodia, obsessed by dreams of Asia: "The marching forth of armies in the scented dusk loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone...
...Conquest of the Maya is written by an archeologist who is also a novelist, hence an enemy of dry-as-dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists, too categorically for such cautious Americanists as Philip Means (Ancient Civilization of the Andes'), that wandering Polynesians or Chinese, in search of "life-givers" such as gold, landed somewhere along the coasts of South or Central America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor...
...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...