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Anthropologist Spends Summer Excavating at Iranian Mound
William M. Bass, associate professor of anthropology, compares the Hasanlu, Iran, excavation site on which he worked this summer, with the KU campus.
The big difference is the KU camput is livelier. The site of the Hasanlu excavation is a mound 70 feet high
In excavation is a mound.
Describing the site, Dr. Bass said,
"The mound is much like the one
KU is built on, Mount Oread. The
are around it is flat with mountains
rising in the distance."
"The area reminds me of Western Kansas because it is dry, and irrational agriculture is used extensively." Dr. Bass said.
Dr. Bass continued, "The mound was a result of one city being built on top of another. These cities were made from mud and dirt. The inhabitants mixed dirt and water to build the huts and the city walls. These were baked by the sun but they did not last for any great length of time and finally collapsed."
"More huts were built over the fallen village and new city walls went up. Now these villages are being uncovered but the work is slow."
"If the archeologist dug for another one thousand years, the work wouldn't be completed. Excavation was started seven years ago."
Ambassador's Daughter Has Lived Around World
Washington, D.C., Paris, Rome Greece, Saigon, Africa, Massachusetts, Cameroun, and Lawrence Kan.
It sounds like a travel logue but it's actually a list of the places where Jennifer Barrows lived before coming to KU.
Her father is a foreign service officer and is now ambassador to the African Republic of Cameroun. Ambassador Leland J. Barrows is also a KU Alumni Distinguished Service Citee, in addition to having received several citations for his diplomatic work in Saigon.
BUT MISS BARROWS has no present plans for foreign service work. She is attending KU because she feels, "You should study in your own country before you go off to another country." Her brother, Leland Barrows, however, is taking his masters in African studies at UCLA. Miss Barrows isn't a stranger to American schools. She took her ninth and senior years of high school via correspondence courses from the University of Nebraska, and spent her sophomore year at Northfield School for Girls in Massachusetts.
During the 12 and a half years she spent in other countries, all the schools she attended but one were American community schools taught in the American fashion.
Miss Barrows also kept up on her native country through American
Missionaries, tourists, official state department visitors, performers, newspapers and Peace Corps representatives.
She said the Peace Corps in Cameroun was well received and has been requested to send more teachers.
SHE FOUND THE people there interested in the United States, especially the civil rights issue. "Racial problems are everywhere. The United States is such a big nation that it stands out more."
Returning to America was not a big adjustment. "I haven't been brought up in any one place so its just like another home," she said.
Just in case Jennifer longs for a talk about her "foster" home, she has a friend at KU who is a foreign exchange student from Cameroun.
Ambassador and Mrs. Barrows visited friends in Lawrence while Jennifer enrolled at KU. They will see friends and relatives in Kansas and Colorado before going to Washington for a course at the foreign service institute, and then to Cameroun.
Martha, the pizza at 807 Vermont was so tender, I didn't even need my false teeth.
DR. BASS' job is the examination of skeletal remains found in the excavation. To explain the purpose of the physical anthropologist, Dr. Bass said, "It is my job to relate the human population with the culture."
When the famous Golden Bowl was uncovered in 1958 in Hasanlu, Dr. Bass was asked to examine the skeletal remains found with the bowl.
The Golden Bowl was found in the basement of a palace clutched in the hands of a soldier and two other soldiers were lying beside him.
THE ARCHEOLOGISTS surmised the soldiers had been running along the roof of the palace after it caught fire. The roof collapsed and the soldiers plunged to their deaths.
Explaining his investigation of the skeletal remains of the soldiers, Dr. Bass said, "It was my duty to determine whether the skeletons belonged to Hasanlu soldiers or to looters of another race."
"I have the first eight-one skeletons dug from the site and now eighty-three that were excavated this summer are being sent here to the anthropology department.
"I will take the skeletal measurements of these skeletons and determine if the soldiers were from Hasanlu. As the result of a primary analysis I feel that the three soldiers, who were carrying the Golden Bowl, were members of the Hasanlu population."
THE GOLDEN Bowl is now on loan from the Archeological Museum of Teheran. It will be included in a display called "7,000 years of Iranian Art" which can be seen Oct. 9 to Nov. 22 at the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City.
University Daily Kansan
Eve, never mind those apples,
I'll take you to La Pizza at
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Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1964
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