a paper, a formal description of these little implements. It was exhilarating. In a small way I was being an archaeologist.
I made drawings of artifacts to illustrate that publication and one other, studiously rendering each piece, first in pencil then with pen and ink to show the form, size and knapping process. I’m reminded that I spent many pleasant hours at this task, immersing myself completely. A way of escaping from the realities of graduate school, it gave importance to my life, made me feel involved in science. Among our collection of miscellaneous family photos, there is a picture of me hunched over a desk, cap on my head, lamp beside my elbow, striving to capture the shape of yet one more artifact.
In 1951 or so, Sue Miles went off to work on her Ph.D. at Harvard University. While there studying at the Peabody Museum, she was shown some small stone tools unearthed at a prehistoric Poverty Point site in Louisiana by archaeologist Phillip Phillips. Recalling my interest in small flake tools, Sue sent me a sample of Dr. Phillips’ artifacts to see if I’d encountered anything like them in Wisconsin. After examining them with considerable interest, I returned them with some appropriate comments. In her May 1952 reply to my notes, Sue wrote that Dr. Phillips was “…delighted with your analytic description of the tools and asked…permission to copy it for further research purposes.” Further, according to Sue, after reading my little report on his artifacts he told her: “That man is an archaeologist or ought to be. The school that missed snapping him up must have been completely blind.” Flattering, yes, but at the same time adding to my distress, for I was still uncertain about my academic direction, though fairly well committed to finishing school as a zoologist.
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