Northwest History. Alaska 7. Archaeology, United States

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Savants; Mongol peoples; Bering Straits; Siberia; North and South America; Eastern scientists; Alaska Steamship Company's Victoria; Henry B. Collins; Smithsonian Institution; National Geographic Society; James A. Ford; Louisiana State University; Harrison Prindle; Duke University; Cape Prince of Wales; archeological discoveries; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Shoveler
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/89020

'Glorified Pick And Shoveler': He Digs History. 'GLORIFIED PICK AND SHOVELER' He Digs History. ON THE TRAIL OF FIRST SETTLERS. Henry B. Collins, Who Leads Scientific Party. 3 Savants Sail for Alaska On the elusive trail of the early Mongol peoples who crossed the Bering Straits from Siberia thousands of years ago to populate North and South America, three noted Eastern scientists sailed on the Alaska Steamship Company's Victoria yesterday . Half-humorously alluding to their capacities as "just glorified pick and shovel men," Henry B. Collins of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society; James A. Ford of Louisiana State University and Harrison Prindle, graduate of Duke University, were bound for Cape Prince of Wales, where amazing archeological discoveries have been made in recent years. On the bleak, storm-swept coast, just fifty-five miles east of the Siberian coast line, they will dig in frozen ground -- at the rate of three inches a day -- for the crude implements, adornments and the skeletons of those early peoples. Bit by bit they hope to unearth evidence further to corroborate their theory.