Word: movius
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Miller is currently working with Hallam Movius, professor of Archeology, on an excavation of prehistoric remains at Les Ezyies, France...
Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, will lead an expedition to the small farming village of Les Eyzies in southwestern France this summer. He plans to study "the relationship between the Upper Paleolithic man and his slowly changing environment from 20 to 35 thousand years...
...group will continue the work of a similar expedition which last summer uncovered two "occupation levels" of Stone Age hunters who inhabited the region 20 and 22 thousand years ago respectively, Movius estimates that it will take five or six more summers to reach the base of the remaining 30 feet of successive occupations...
After studying imperishable artifacts left by these prehistoric men and remains of plant and animal life of the time, Movius' group concluded that the first inhabitants of Arbi-Pataud--as it is called--lived there year-round in a cold temperate climate. The second group migrated to and from the area on an annual basis as the climate became sub-artic...
...team of Schroeder, Austin, Zenno and Parsons won the other relay of the meet, the 200-yard medley. Geoff Movius turned in a first place finish in the 150-yard individual medley to complete the Crimson triumph...