Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has "a fine eye for country") picked it out, hired native laborers to cut a trench into it. Done properly, this is slow work: for years the archaeologists worked on the mound. Piled in layers were vertical walls and stamped clay floors all mixed with bits of pottery and copper...
Chips from the Chisel. This is the sort of record that archaeologists love. The mound represented what for many centuries was a well-built stone city of about 10,000 inhabitants. The oldest part seems to have flourished before 2500 B.C. It had no city wall, and a layer of ashes shows that its poor defense posture may have enabled an invader to burn it. When the inhabitants built a new city, they encircled it with a substantial wall...
...death Shute left a novel, Trustee from the Toolroom, April Book-of-the-Month; like his other books, it will probably be a rattling good story and no literary masterpiece. No mound of Ph.D. theses on symbols and significance is likely to be stacked over Shute's books. Yet later years may find them a remarkably reliable portrait of mid-20th century man and his concerns. Shute himself read little, but in Henry James's words, he qualified as "one of the people on whom nothing is lost...