Word: lockard
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...conditions in the Near East have interrupted the plans of Harvard archaeologists to search out evidence about the little known people of five to six thousand years ago who were among the first to domesticate plants and animals and thus develop a settled agricultural economy, Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, reported last night in a lecture here...
...reconnaissance expedition two years ago, Lockard said, University archaeologists examined in northern Syria and Iraq the "mounds" of about 120 ancient, now buried town sites, some of which are believed to contain cultural remains of this early people. Members of this party were Lauriston Ward, curator of Asiatic Archaeology at the Museum, and director of the Expedition, and Mr. and Mrs. Lockard...
Previous excavators and explorers in this region, according to Lockard, have reconstructed relatively completely the picture of the early food-hunting peoples who lived in the region in the Paleolithic periods, some ten to twenty thousand years ago, nomadic people with rough stone tools and no agriculture...
...relatively highly developed agricultural economy, with sophisticated painted pottery designs and elaborate building constructions. Also, the sequence of cultures from the Tell Halaf period down through to written history and the periods of the great dynasties, and down to the present, are also fairly well traced by now, Lockard said...
...public without charge, on various phases of modern geographical exploration. The schedule will be: February 24, "Black Head-hunters of the Pacific," Dr. Douglas L. Oliver, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard; March 10, "Ascent of Mount Bertha," Bradford Washburn; March 17, "Searching for the First Agriculturists," Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum; March 24, "Iceberg Ahead," William M. Rand, Jr.; April 14, "Australian Aborigines and Half-Castes," Joseph B. Birdsell; April 21, "Search for Sleeping Island," P. G. Downes; May 5, "Dominica, The Caribs' Last Stronghold," Walter H, Hodge; and May 19, "Alaska Indian Art," Frederick R Pleasants...