Word: wissler
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Died. Clark Wissler, 76, anthropologist, authority on the American Indian; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. As curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, Wissler built one of the best collections of Indian material in the U.S., once delighted reporters by announcing: "Red hair has no influence whatever on the contour of legs...
People who are careless with shovels recently got told off. The teller-off was 72-year-old Clark Wissler, curator emeritus of anthropology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. He was worried by the thought of how much is lost to science by amateur archeologists ignorantly gouging away after arrowheads or other subterranean souvenirs. He wrote an article about proper procedure for the March Natural History...
...site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits-mines of information...
...Wissler's central point seemed clear throughout-in case of likely findings, call a real archeologist...