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Pond, Alonzo W. (Alonzo William), 1894-1986
birth: 1894
death: 1986
Alonzo William Pond was an American anthropologist with a varied career, specializing in prehistoric research. His primary association with the American Museum of Natural History was his participation as archaeologist in the 1928 field season of the 1921-1930 Central Asiatic Expeditions in the Gobi Desert, led by Roy Chapman Andrews, with Walter Granger as paleontologist. Pond conducted the bulk of his field work from 1925 through 1930 in North Africa and the Sahara Desert, as assistant curator of Beloit College's Logan Museum of Anthropology. In later years Pond worked at various positions in the United States. Pond died in 1986.