Word: layering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From ground level to about 16 feet down, the earth beneath the Abri Pataud is a series of thin layers, like a plank of plywood. Each layer, or stratum, is half-an-inch or so thick. Many of these strata constitute "occupation layers": buried within each are flint and bone objects that accumulated as the layer slowly accumulated during geological history. Some of the layers represent a year's occupation of the Abri Pataud; others contain the relics of 10, 20 or more years. A few yield no bones or man-made objects for they were laid down while...
With the pipes in places, two parallel trenches are dug, about ten feet apart and three feet wide. These slices reveal the earth layers piled on top of one another, and the digging--a chore which falls on trained college and graduate students--proceeds horizontally from one trench to the other, one thin layer at a time. The digger usually pokes his way along with a large screw driver bent into a right angle. Occasionally he uses a spatula-like tool to skim off the dirt. As the work proceeds boards are placed down to prevent damage to the underlying...
...Tobey is the top sculptor, Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti of Paris. Giacometti once declared that he wanted his figures to be "immense." But in working on them, he is almost always driven to whittling them down to emaciation, as if he were looking for some elusive essence inside one layer of flesh after another. His figures seem still to be searching for that essence long after they leave his studio, eternal and lonely question marks...
...sound. Last week an exhibition opened in Munich of 400 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. If a thief so much as touches one. an alarm will go off. London's National Gallery and Tate Gallery are considering placing their pictures in a new kind of mat-a thin layer of foam rubber sandwiched between two foil sheets that are wired to the wall. It will do a thief no good to cut the wires, for the alarm will go off anyway. Price...
Judged on the Washington level, there seem to be several flaws. "Attacking the Army's problems is like uncovering Troy," says one Army officer. "You always find another layer." Says a top Defense Department official: "I look at the whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget...