Alonzo W. Pond

Alonzo W. Pond

Alonzo W. Pond (1894-1986) was assistant curator of the Logan Museum in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA, in 1924. He conducted excavations of prehistoric sites in Northeastern Algeria. After 1931 he served as "an archaeologist and project supervisor for the National Park Service, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Cave of the Mounds at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin." [ [http://www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/collections/collectors/#pond Beloit College Logan Museum Collectors & Collections] biography] In 1934–1936, along with John T. Zaharov, H. Summerfield Day, and W.J. Winter, Pond directed Civilian Conservation Corps excavators of colonial Jamestown. [ [http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/JtArch.html Chronology of Colonial Jamestown Archeology] ]

He delivered lectures illustrated with lantern slides on such topics as "With Andrews in the Gobi", "Nomads of Algeria", and "Lost John of Mummy Ledge", the last being on Mammoth Cave (his lecture to the Technical Club of Madison on this topic on November 2, 1936, drew 215 attendees).

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