Alonzo Pond and the 1930 Logan Museum Expedition to North Africa - The Beloit College Symposium, edited by L. B. Breitborde, Logan Museum Bulletin (new series), vol. 1, no. 1, 1992
After a 32 year hiatus, the Logan Museum Bulletin returns with a number on the man who contributed to three of the first five numbers of the old series, Alonzo W. Pond. Pond is one of those archaeologists with a distinctive name most professionals recognize, but w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
1994-11-01
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Series: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |
Online Access: | http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/386 |
Summary: | After a 32 year hiatus, the Logan Museum Bulletin returns with a
number on the man who contributed to three of the first five numbers of the old series,
Alonzo W. Pond. Pond is one of those archaeologists with a distinctive name most
professionals recognize, but whose specific accomplishments do not easily come to mind.
For lithic analysts, his work on flintknapper Halvor Skavlem stands foremost (pond
1930), but for desert enthusiasts his work with Roy Chapman Andrews in the Gobi, the
Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition in the American South west, and Beloit
College in the Sahara are most memorable. The last season of the latter expedition is
the focus of this slim volume, based upon a symposium given in 1985. The six chapters in the volume stand alone without an editorial structure and 50
readers are on their own to synthesize the information provided. Unfortunately, the
longest contribution, Kit Hinsley's revision of a previously published (Hinsley 1989)
visual analysis of late 19th century archaeological images, although of interest in the
grand scale of things, sticks out as being unrelated to the concern of the volume. The
author or editor should have done something to make this unrelatedness less
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ISSN: | 1062-4740 2047-6930 |