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/-"XN this state university campus, she is just I 1 another brainy professor with an impres- V.X sive rfesume, a laboratory crammed with old shards of rock, bone and crockery, and a fondness for cooking and hiking. Harmless stuff. Send her to Iraq and she morphs into academia’s version of a superhero, minus the cape; Indiana ■Wl Jones without the romantic complications. Those amoral guys in mid-desert toting AK- 47 rifles and backpacks jammed with stolen arti­ facts circa 2000 B.C. — fellow antiquities buffs bent on preserving Iraq’s archaeological treasure trove, they surely we not — don’t intimidate Dr, Etobetti C. Stone. On ‘a trip to Iraq In May to survey the destructive handiwork of excavation- I* site looters, her Marine escort persuaded her to turn back at Larsa, just north of Ur. Maybe she wasn't ^worried about getting ambushed, but the soldiers were. In July, on a trip sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the State Department, she deliv­ ered $250,000 ta-offlee equipment, furniture and computers to the ravaged Iraq National Museum in Baghdad. No easy task. She estimates 10 percent of its collection, some o( it supplied by her fieldwork, was stolen or destroyed. “The gulf war changed everything, and this second war has exacerbated a bad situation,” she Ed Beu for New t'ork Time# laments. “The theft of antiquities is a high-stakes market tor the players involved, and some of it's “/ guess I think life isn’t worth the fault of my colleagues who sit around and say, ‘Yes, that’s genuine.’ At the moment it’s turning living ifyou don’t take some risks the countryside into something like Colombia There's money laundering, there’s corruption. for the things you believe in.” ARZ. And n<jb<xiy’s acting like the police.” Dr. Stone, one of five Americans permitted to OR. euzabeth c. stone STREET do archaeological research In Iraq before the gulf ed a $4.1 million grant, renewable over two years, ly Ham to ?pm• www.f8o.com 5 war and the only America.n archaeologist to make from the United States Agency for International two trips there test summer, has learned to sleep Development to support reconstruction efforts through the rat-a-tat of evening gunfire in Bagh­ dad. She has teamed to cope with desert working focusing on archaeology and environmental conditions so fiery that, if one feels sick, the health at Iraqi univ,^lties. In addition, she will theriBotaeter has to be shaken down from a select six Iraqi studSits to come to .Stony Brook feverish 110 degrees before it is usable. next June anti pursue master’s degrees in archae­ WHOME. On her office wall she keeps a color photo­ graph of her first find — a tiny carved, doglike ology, and Stony Brook’s library will create a digital library of materials related to Mesopota­ IC| • wal^QvennK| animal wearing a collar ~ from the iconic site at mian culture that can be accessed by Iraqi re- ancient Mashkan-shaplr in 1987, an object pre­ ,searchers. sumably stolen last spring during the museum “It totally changes ray life (or the next three looting. years,” she says. She and the project's other So she is thrilled, not apprehensive, that the leader. Dr. Wajdy Hailoo, a professor of preven­ State University at Stony Brook has been award- tive medicine, leave for Iraq on Nov. 2. Dr. Stone

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