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...Hall Mr. Gregory, Sects. G1, G2, G3, G4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hulse, Sects. H1, H2, H3, H4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Mitchell, Sects. M1, M2, M3, M4 New Lect. Hall Greek G 1 Allen Stensland Sever 29 Thomas Yakubisin Sever 30 Greek 8 Sever 30 History 11 Aldrich Conkey Harvard 2 Cock Zanetti Harvard 6 History 36 Sever 30 History 55 Sever 36 Italian 3 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mathematics A IV. Mr. Gatabedian's section 1 Sever 35 Mr. Marden's section 3 Sever 35 Mr. Stabler's section 2 Sever 32 Mathematics C Sec. III Harvard 5 Mathematics...
Part of the difficulty lies in the very definition of art. As anthropologist Margaret Conkey of the University of California, Berkeley puts it, "Many cultures don't really produce art, or even have any concept of it. They have spirits, kinship, group identity. If people from highland New Guinea looked at some of the Cro-Magnon cave art, they wouldn't see anything recognizable"-and not just because there are no woolly rhinos in New Guinea either. Today we can see almost anything as an aesthetic configuration and pull it into the eclectic orbit of late-Western "art experience"; museums...
...Chauvet cave, and more intensive study of existing sites, are constantly giving archaeologists more information to work with. Also, dating techniques are becoming more refined. It used to be that scientists needed to test a large sample of paint to pinpoint its age. And, says anthropologist Margaret Conkey, "no one was willing to scrape a bison's rump off the wall." Now it takes only a tiny sample. French prehistory expert Arlette Leroi-Gourhan estimates dates by using pollen particles preserved on cave floors...
DONALD S. CONKEY Caseville, Mich...
Married. Marion Hughes Whitehead, 22, divorced wife of Conkey Pate Whitehead, Atlanta bottling scion; and Andrew Granville Pierce III, 25, son of the one-time board chairman of American Woolen Co.; in Manhattan...