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luesday afternoon, but the craft
early flipped over on landing.
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umpy, grassy airfield, the plane’s
ght brake failed, causing it to veer
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f which he is a member, last year
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here all night’. . . and ail night it took for Bill
Blue of Dallas, as hundreds of Aggies camped
out last weekend outside of G. Rollie White
Coliseum for tickets to the Saturday Texas
A&M-Houston game in Houston. Blue was
second in line, but being one of the first in line
did not guarantee him good seats. He ended
up on rows three and four in the Pavilion sec
tion of the Astrodome.
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STUTTGART, West Germany —
An amateur archeologist has discov
ered the 2,500-year-old grave of a
Celtic prince, the first such grave
the resii found fully preserved in West Ger
many.
Amateur archaeologist and
housewife Renate Leibfried, 44,
turned up what one West German
expert called “a find of the century”
the grave of the prince complete
with original burial ornaments —
while digging near Ludwigsburg, six
miles north of 1
Stuttgart.
An Etruscan bronze kettle, a
four-wheeled cart, gold jewelry and
a 9.8-foot-long bronze coffin were
among the treasures found in the
burial monument.
Archaeologists from the State Of
fice of Monuments in the West
German province of Baden-
Wurttemberg kept the find secret
until Wednesday, when the news
was announced.
The experts said the find will en
able archaeologists to piece together
new knowledge of Celtic life and
burial customs. They also said some
of the objects found suggested
strong links between the Celtic and
Mediterranean peoples.
The boat-shaped coffin contained
the body of a Celtic prince adorned
with a gold neck choker, a golden
belt, leather sandals and a dagger
also decorated with gold.
Next to the head of the prince lay
an iron horn with gold decoration.
The archaeologists said prelimi
nary analysis suggested the prince
died around 500 B.C. at the age of
40. They said he was about 6 feet
tall, unusually tall for those times.
The French have a saying: “The
more things change, the more they
stay the same.”
Anthropologists from three uni
versities are finding that adage to be
true in the rain forest jungles of Be
lize. Their research has discovered
evidence of a civilized Mayan center
which specialized in stone tool
craftsmanship and remained
virtually unchanged for 1,800 years
until A. D. 800.
The project, co-directed by Dr.
Harry Shafer of Texas A&M Uni
versity and Dr. Thomas Hester of
the University of Texas at San An
tonio, also involves anthropologists
from Italy and the University of
California at Berkeley.
“We have every reason to believe
we are on the threshold of one of the
most important Mayan sites ever
found,” said Shafer. “The data we’re
collecting will provide insight into
an aspect of Mayan society the
world knows little about: the middle
class.”
The site covers 3.5 square miles
in Belize (formerly British Hon
duras) and has been described by
archaelogical experts as “one of the
most important lithic (stone) sites in
the world.”
“The remains these Indians left
behind were all stone,” Shafer said.
“We’re able to get a more complete
picture of their lives simply because
the material hasn’t rotted away.
“That’s one of the big problems
with any Mayan archaelogy,” he
said. “The rain forest does a pretty
good job of decomposing anything
that’s left in it.”
So far, anthropologists have un
covered more than 1,000 stone
chips and pieces of tools, Shafer
noted.
“Of course, there are a lot of
questions we want to have answered
through our research,” Shafer
stressed. “We want to know if the
area was a Mayan craft center from
the very beginning, or if it evolved
that way.
“We also want to know if they
were specialized in producing flint
tools and if they exported any of
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their work,” he added. “And if they
did export any tools, we want to dis
cover what they received in trade.”
A project of this size takes a lot of
time, money and people to come up
with all the answers. Besides the
data collected, Shafer will even
tually serve as part of Texas A&M’s
graduate field school.
“The Mayans were a bunch of
perfectionists,” Shafer said. “They
threw away things they could have
used, but didn’t.
“That’s why there is a lot of mate
rial left for us to uncover,” he said.
“The chipped, broken or imperfect
pieces tney threw away are like
pieces of a puzzle to us.”
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