European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A dirt archaeologist named Anna Roosevelt by Gayle Young United press International w Hen she was 28. Anna Roosevell Lewlou a Rumole venezuelan Village with worried Sisler a sack full of shovels Anda government permit to dig. The great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt was looking Lor carbonized Corn she found it like crazy along with her Niche As an Arith Roppol a if l who created Waves in her Field the ancient Corn helped her prove South american indians lived in structured societies that cultivated the Ini id Brick in boo b g and Colin Lehv Uio established a Liol Hinl re orly indians.ere1 Root eating primitives mailing to lie civilized by european influence sumo people of in Home cd. Some Guy threatened to sue she reminisced recently of inc anthropological Luxor caused by the publication of her Book Parmana in 1930 i was a Little scarred by Iho experience but. Well she trailed Oil it  l Slop her she is a leading authority on prehistoric indians and us turned 40 a loner in her Field Roost Mem has secured $361,800 Worth of Grants from a siring of foundations of kind her Dir s the most recent on the wild and Remote Marajo Island at Iho Mould of the Amazon River in Brazil 1 it a uni Jar held and she is a Pioneer said Irving he list Poler Sor emeritus of anthropology at Yale University of Roosevelt s Ivoah on ancient South  indians she s created quite a Bil of a a Jetti that s Emi going on Slit also has always worked Lor herself which is unusual " in a cavernous room of stored Indian Arlin ice. On the in Looi of the american museum of natural history in new York Roor Ovelt is at work preparing her latest Hook under the Walch Lul eyes of lowering Lovorn poles and giant Tendon animals carved by no la american indians two moors below another cavernous room boars Iho name of her Groat Grandfather Theodore who gave the museum elephant hide big game trophies and natural his Lois specimens gathered Over a lil ehme. Anna Cullen Iii Roosevelt s own collection of decorated earthenware a is and charred Bone fragments is stored in Gray Motal cabinets near her work table wailing to be catalogued examined and interpreted it s a very gorgeous  she said. Leaning Over an album of Marajo photographs showing vast tracts of Barren isolated land. This is where i drove the Joop in the mud Roosevelt said tapping a photo she describes herself As both girlish and a Din archaeologist who spends As much time As possible in the Field Willowy and Green eyed she said she puts on makeup and clean clothes every evening at Marajo even though there is absolutely no place to go. Perhaps in is part of her upbringing near Oyster Bay Long Island in an aristocratic new York family under the guidance of her artist Mother Frances Webb. Her lather Quentin Roosevelt died when she and her iwo Sisters were children. But Roosevell said she is serious Aboul her profession and views it Wilh a critical not romantic Eye the ability to interpret and gather data has grown like never before because of the change in technology and computers and mass  she said in an interview at the museum there has been a revolution of sorts up Podio great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt with one of the prehistoric Indian artefacts she has uncovered. Page 18 the stars and stripes a let of Copto go into arcane subjects because they Are considered prestigious and because people believe they Are obscure enough to offer no Competition that has changed Wilh the introduction of technology you have to control As Many disciplines As possible or you will be left behind. It s very different now than it once was i think and some people in the Field fight that  she has lacked engineering climatology agriculture chemistry and forensics to better understand the indians of Marajo who lived on the Island a thousand years ago in Back huts built on earthen Mounds Roosevelt has spent four months every year since 1982 at Marajo with a team of native workers and occasional visiting scientists who help her with their Sale of the Art technology. Last year she and a geophysicist mapped an entire buried Indian settlement by measuring electric impulses in the soil that pinpointed the Iron Clay of hearths Brick does not conduct electricity she explained when we did not gel a Reading we Drew a Wall on the  Wilh map in hand she and her workers methodically uncovered Iho Homes of indians Hal lived one sell Emend on top of another from 400 to 1,300 a d she believes that related women made up each Hearth which included their children and husbands together they armed com on the Flat Muddy River Banks and caught Small Bony fish. Their pols. Now stored at she american museum Are sunday october 19,1986 etched with Lanci Lul animals and rotund women. The armstic artefacts Are interesting enough but Roosevell said shyly it was a carbonized Leek Hal got her interested in anthropology in the first Placo. It sounds silly now she said glancing around before plunging into a description of the exciting discovery during an archaeology Outing As a Stanford University undergraduate. The Leek was in a Mound of shells in a California swamp where indians had lived thousands of years ago. It appeared to have been cooked which raised All sorts of questions Aboul agriculture and civilization that Roosevelt wanted to answer. I realised it was t All perfectly straightforward " she said. Roosevelt went an to obtain a degree in history from Stanford and her master s and doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University and eventually she. Wont on to find More carbonized vegetables this time Corn in Venezuela Corn like  she said. It was domesticated. From boo . On i Lound More Corn and the races got belter. They were  her interest in Indian culture led to the position of curator at Iho museum of the american Indian in new York and just this year to researcher in the anthropology department of the american museum. The More i learn the More fascinated i become " she said at the museum paging through the uncorrected proofs of her Book on ma/a0 anthropologists overlooked the Amazon because they though nothing happened there i d like to prove that wrong