Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From the Graduate School, one to be elected--L. Putnam, G. P. Milne...
Under the auspices of the Anthropological Society Professor F.W. Putnam spoke last night in the Fogg Lecture Room on the "Exploration of a Prehistoric Earthwork and Group of Altar Mounds in Ohio...
Situated in Hamilton County, about thirty miles from Cincinnati, these mounds were discovered by two Harvard men, Professors Turner and Putnam. The work of exploring them was tedious, and often the workmen fell into pitfalls, lightly covered with crusts of clay. As the work progressed, however, they made many interesting discoveries. In some of the mounds, altars with skeletons and implements of prehistoric ages were found. Battle-axes, bracelets, knives, the things which were most valued during life, all these were placed by their side when they were buried; on one altar as many as sixty thousand beads were found...
...Harvard Anthropological Society. Exploration of a Prehistoric Earthwork and Group of Altar Mounds in Ohio. (Illustrated with the Stereopticon.) Professor F. W. Putnam. Fogg Lecture Room...
Professor F.W. Putnam will give a stereopticon lecture tonight at 8 o'clock, on "Exploration of a Prehistoric Earth-work and Group of Altar Mounde in Ohio." It will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum, under the auspices of the Harvard Anthropological Society. The public will be admitted...