Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came in 1805 from a Yale graduate, Othniel Charles Marsh. The science of anthropology was then in its relative infancy and Marsh, later to become America's first professor of paleontology, was little more than a novice in the field. But while digging one day in an ancient Indian mound in Ohio, Marsh was struck by the realization that the rapid settlement of the American countryside was resulting in the destruction of many of the relics of the ancient Indian tribes. As the young science of anthropology increased in prominence, much of the material for anthropological study seemed actually...
Instead, three friars met them at the cemetery gate. They carried the coffin, chanting psalms of resurrection, to a freshly dug grave, where one of them read the Office of the Dead. Long after the family had gone, the friars remained by the fresh mound in prayer...
Near Jarlshof in the Shetlands, off the northern coast of Scotland, is a great mound of wind-blown beach sand stuffed with stone ruins. For more than 50 years archeologists have poked at the mound, but the job of excavating it was not undertaken until a few years ago. Near the top of the sand were remains of houses built by the Vikings, who conquered the Shetlands in the Dark Ages. Farther down were strange windowless stone buildings that must have looked in their prime like a cross between a medieval castle and a huddle of Eskimo igloos...
...thing, he understood death. There was the first mound of corpses by the roadside, caked with dried blood, open mouths frozen in a scream. His sergeant said: ''Don't get shook up. They're just Koreans." Or there were muddy U.S. Army boots protruding awkwardly from under a blanket as a litter jeep bounced down the road from the front. Or in the rain, as he climbed his first Korean hill, there was the glistening poncho stretched over the two men sleeping near the trail-and then he realized that they were asleep forever...
...organized a digging party and cut a trench. In the center of the base of the mound, he found a caved-in shaft three yards in diameter. As the dirt that had fallen into it was carefully scratched away, treasure after treasure came to light...