Old Fossils New Fads

Television broadcast produced by the Jamieson Film Company of Dallas, Texas for "Texas in Review," a series sponsored by Humble Oil. Film documents the work of amateur archeologist Robert King Harris, an engineer with the Texas and Pacific Railroad and President of the Dallas Archeological Society. Discussed are carbon dating, the discovery in Lewisville of a 37,000 year old camp site which demonstrated that man hunted mammoths, restoration of pottery, and cataloging archeological artifacts by the "map and plot" method. Shown is an archeological site being excavated, pottery pieces being matched, a pot being reconstructed using plaster of paris, and cataloging using the map and plot method. This film forms part of the Robert King Harris Papers in the National Anthropological Archives.