Word: movius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, curator of Paleolithic Archaeology at Peabody Museum, led a group of scientists to France in order to make some diggings in the La Columbiere range. The site of the excavations was eastern France, at the banks of the Ain River near where it flows out of the Jura Alps...
...here that Movius came across the "lucky pebble," the small piece of rock that helped him win the $1,000 Viking Award for Archaeology in 1950. Movius believes that it was used in ceremonies performed by medicine-men of the Paleolithic tribe...
...pebble is, Movius said, possibly one of the earlier examples of Stone Age art. But, he adds, it was not art for art's sake--rather, "art for the stomach's sake...
Movins said evidence of equally ancient human existence has been unearthed in Europe but never before in Asia. Coon's assertion that the fossil dates back to the third interglacial period still has to be substantiated by geologists, Movius pointed...
...emphasized, however, that even if this is not proved, the discovery is still an extremely important one prior to Coon's investigations in the past few years, there had been no archaeological knowledge of the Caspian sea region, Movius said...