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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...
...support his case for archaeological fingerprinting, Aström and a friend, Sven Eriksson, chief of the Swedish police's fingerprint department, collected some 200 impressions from ancient pottery found in Greece and Cyprus. The Mycenaean fingerprints had a distribution of 20% arches, 65% loops, 15% whorls, while those from Minoan Crete, a civilization some 1,000 years older, show a contrasting distribution of 4%, 42%, 54%. Their sampling was admittedly too small to suggest any major answer to perennial disputes. "My purpose," Aström explained, "is to maintain that fingerprints can be used in defining a population...
...real impact of training men in the shortest time will be felt by the speicalized training schools located here. The ASTP and ASTR, which have just completed an end-of-term vacation, will only get Christmas Day off. The NTS (Communications) will also get the day off. At the Naval Supply Corps School the officers will be given the weekend...
With the first year ASTR students added to older advanced-study units, the Army now sends more than 2000 men to College classes, coming second only to the Navy in classified enrollment...