Abstract
At some point in their training, most Paleolithic archaeologists succumb to the almost spiritual pull of the French Perigord and undertake the pilgrimage. While today's prehistorians visit numerous French museums and are able to purchase a spectrum of teaching aids from artifact replicas to CD-ROM images of rockshelter excavations, the situation facing Alonzo Pond and George Collie in the early 1920's was quite different. During the seminal years of Beloit College's Department of Anthropology, Pond and Collie acquired over 20,000 Paleolithic artifacts from both a network of professional and amateur archaeologists in France, and limited excava tion projects. This collection, consisting of stone artifacts, bone tools, worked shell, antler, and ivory, and even engraved plaquettes and Azillian pebbles, is the subject of French Paleolithic Collections of the Logan Museum of Anthropology.
Highlights
Vogt, Evon Z. 1994 Fieldwork Among 'the Maya (Reflections of the Harvard Chiapas Project), University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
During the seminal years of Beloit College's Department of Anthropology, Pond and Collie acquired over 20,000 Pale olithic artifacts from both a network of professional and amateur archaeologists in France, and limited excava tion projects
"Causes and Consequences of the Acquisitions" should be required reading in many History of Archaeology courses, as White sets the dispersal of French archaeological collections in historical context
Summary
Evon Z. 1994 Fieldwork Among 'the Maya (Reflections of the Harvard Chiapas Project), University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. White and Breitborde's French Paleolithic Collections ofthe Logan Museum ofAnthropology. This collection, consisting of stone artifacts, bone tools, worked shell, antler, and ivory, and even engraved plaquettes and Azillian pebbles, is the subject of French Paleolithic Collections of the Lo an Museum of AnthrQpolo .
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