Between 1925 and 1930 he conducted four excavations of prehistoric (paleolithic) sites in northeastern Algeria, the first of which is described, along with his portrayals of extensive encounters with the Tuareg, in his narrative Veiled Men, Red Tents, and Black Mountains: The Lost Tomb of Queen Tin Hinan.
thesis, “A Contribution to the Study of Prehistoric Man in Algeria, North Africa,” was completed in 1928 in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, presenting results of his excavations of the Mechta-Afalou and published in the Logan Museum Bulletin (vol 1, no.
Ten years later the same bulletin published its fifth issue, Prehistoric Habitation Sites in the Sahara and North Africa in which Pond expands his studies on Algerian prehistory based on subsequent excavation findings in Algeria.
Winter, Pond directed the Civilian Conservation Corps excavations of colonial Jamestown,[8][9] as well as CCC Trail building at Interstate Park along the St. Croix River gorge in the northwestern part of Wisconsin.
[13] He delivered lectures illustrated with lantern slides and films[14] on such topics as "With Andrews in the Gobi",[15] "Nomads of Algeria", "Lost John of Mummy Ledge" concerning a pre-Columbian miner stuck after a boulder moved onto him (and Pond extracted and preserved his remains),[16] and Mammoth Cave.
[17] Over a thousand of his photographic slides have been archived in the Gottesman Research Library at the American Museum of Natural History in New York,[18] while over thirty film reels, discovered in 1980 by Michael Tarabulski in the Logan Museum,[19] are permanently stored in the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.[20] He supported numerous younger scholars, for example supplying all the data he had gathered for research that Georg Neumann undertook on two mummies discovered in Mammouth Cave, the first of which Pond preserved, named "Lost John" and "Fawn Hoof,"[21] or in the final expedition he directed in eastern Algeria when, in February 1930, Pond led a group of eleven college students to assist him in excavating the sites.