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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
[[rapping noise]]
Just testing, just testing on the volume.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
What's that funny click? Do you hear it?

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
The chair? That's probably my chair.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein "}
It's Wednesday May 25th, 1971, Pleasantville?
Are we in Pleasantville?

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Pleasantville, yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
Pleasantville. Oral history project, Smithsonian institution; this is the fourth interview, I think, that we've had, fourth interview--

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
I think it's fourth, maybe only the third.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
No it's the fourth, [[laugh]] Gordon Ekholm gotta type all of this.
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We are continuing our discussion, I think now by talking about the future, the future, of Meso-American archaeology,
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and the direction that you think it's going, or the directions that you think it ought to be going, that may be, that's a better question.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Well, it seems to me we've making pretty good progress in Middle American archaeology in recent years,
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I think the rate of growth in our knowledge of the field has been increasing greatly and, uh,
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we're in a much better situation now than we were, at least, 10 years ago.
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Of course, there are now a great many people working in the region, which was pretty empty when I first started working there.
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There were probably one or two or three Americans, North Americans, there at the most, uh,
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in Mexico proper that is, anyhow because in my area
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there of course have been American, there has been American participation you know very large scale for a long time.
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The, uh, disappearance of the Carnegie Institution's activities in uh,

Transcription Notes:
mandc: https://www.amnh.org/research/anthropology/collections/collections-history/meso-american-archaeology