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...museum has been laid out so that its 125,000 visitors a month can enjoy the nation's treasures and relate them to a past that in Mexico never seems remote. Every artifact on display has been mounted so that it remains a meaningful, individual object. Ancient Indian tribal music wafts softly through the 25 major galleries, each of which is a self-sufficient showcase of a different culture. Some 60 young women, scholars and linguists all, show visitors around. Views from the galleries lead the eye to the surrounding 2,223-acre Chapultepec park, where replicas of temples...
...took my little boy to watch the wreckers demolishing the houses on Garden Street. In the hole that used to be the basement of Everett House this battered old book lay churned up in the debris, exactly as it appears in the picture. As the only visible artifact in a scene of such general desolation, it seems to speak eloquently of the culture of a vanished way of life. Irwin Hyatt...
...archaeologists at Les Eyzies are excavating with a technique more precise than any ever used at a prehistoric site. They are peeling back the thin occupation layers, one by one, and recording the type and exact location of every artifact within each strata. The archaeologists thus obtain a picture of the distribution of flint tools, animal bones, and other remains, in time and space. They can study how the form of a flint knife, for example, slowly changed during thousands of years. And they can determine, for each period of pre-history, where, within the camping site, such tasks...
...When an artifact appears, its position is measured. The object is then removed by hand--or, in the case of a fragile item, with a dental extractor--and tossed into a basket with three compartments: for bones, for flint, and for river stones and pebbles. The stones go to a geologist, the bones to a paleontologist, and the flint to an archaeologist. The pale botanist takes a sample of dirt from eastrata, which he centrifuges to recover the pollen grains of plants which grad around the rock shelter thousands years...
...those who wanted to drop cigarettes as well as names, the Frank Perls Gallery in Beverly Hills was selling a $30 Picasso ceramic ashtray. A somewhat older artifact - an Egyptian cosmetic palette from 3000 B.C. - was available for $280 at Manhattan's Komor Gallery. And the nearby Judith Small Gallery offered a large array of pre-Columbian sculpture, including, at $100, some Mexican fertility figures so tiny that 50 would fit in a Christmas stocking...