Well, Sweden

Posted by Inby from ppp36.nwnetwork.net on June 21, 2001 at 19:02:12:

In Reply to: A question from a comment by Michaelson. (A good question if I do say so myself.) posted by Indiana Dog on June 21, 2001 at 14:17:28:

Sweden published a postage stamp in the 1940s honoring Oscar Montelius, a Swedish archaeologist. In the 19th c. Montelius developed a method of relative dating of artifacts found within a geographic region.
And while many countries have stamps depicting objects and places of national patrimony,
*Isle of Man artifacts
http://homepages.enterprise.net/djr/stamps.htm
*Thulamela (South African zimbabwe-type site)
http://www.art-of-africa.co.za/thulamela.html
few others have so honored archaeologists. We're such a self-effacing, humble lot... (!)
The US did have a Ruth Benedict stamp a few years ago. Ruth wrote several very popular anthropology books about the 1940s or so, including Sword and the Chrysanthemum, a cultural outline of Japanese. Interestingly she did this as part of US intelligence gathering operations during the war; the book was popular with both the general public and, earlier, the OSS and FBI.
I always enjoyed licking Ruthie's behind (the stamp, that is).

http://www.art-of-africa.co.za/thulamela.html

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: Sweden published a postage stamp in the 1940s honoring Oscar Montelius, a Swedish archaeologist.  In the 19th c. Montelius developed a method of relative dating of artifacts found within a geographic region.
: And while many countries have stamps depicting objects and places of national patrimony, 
: *Isle of Man artifacts
: http://homepages.enterprise.net/djr/stamps.htm
: *Thulamela (South African zimbabwe-type site)
: http://www.art-of-africa.co.za/thulamela.html
: few others have so honored archaeologists.  We're such a self-effacing, humble lot... (!)
: The US did have a Ruth Benedict stamp a few years ago.  Ruth wrote several very popular anthropology books about the 1940s or so, including Sword and the Chrysanthemum, a cultural outline of Japanese.  Interestingly she did this as part of US intelligence gathering operations during the war; the book was popular with both the general public and, earlier, the OSS and FBI.
: I always enjoyed licking Ruthie's behind (the stamp, that is).

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