Alonzo W. Pond was assistant curator of the Logan Museum of Anthropology

Logan Museum of Anthropology

Logan Museum of Anthropology is a museum of Beloit College, located in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA . It was founded in 1894 and contains about 300,000 archaeological and ethnological objects from around the world...

 in Beloit, Wisconsin

Beloit, Wisconsin

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, USA, in 1924. Between 1925-1930 he conducted excavations of prehistoric sites in Northeastern Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

. After 1931 he served as "an archaeologist and project supervisor for the National Park Service

National Park Service

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, the Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D...

, and Cave of the Mounds

Cave of the Mounds

Cave of the Mounds, a natural limestone cave located near Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, USA, is named for two nearby hills called the Blue Mounds. It is located in the southern slope of the east hill. The cave's beauty comes from its many varieties of mineral formations called speleothems...

 at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Blue Mounds is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 708. The population was estimated at 766 in 2009. The village is adjacent to the Town of Blue Mounds and is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Blue...

." In 1934–1936, along with John T. Zaharov, H. Summerfield Day, and W.J. Winter, Pond directed Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D...

 excavators of colonial Jamestown

Jamestown, Virginia

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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

Technical Club of Madison

The Technical Club of Madison was founded in 1921 in Madison, Wisconsin, as an association of persons sharing technical interests. In the 1920s and 1930s club meetings could draw hundreds of attendees. Speakers such as the industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth, and Mammoth Cave lecturer Alonzo W....

on this topic on November 2, 1936, drew 215 attendees).