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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
We did not find very much of great significance in Sonora. We
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reviewed the Trincheras culture in the north, visited a number of the sites which had already been known. It is a culture which has since been worked by others to some extent, but it is primarily a southwestern complex. In central Sonora there were very meager sites in most regions.
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Ceramic sites, a number of ceramic sites were found, but only of the simplest kinds of undecorated plainware pottery and so on, which was, very har- which has been very hard to put into any meaningful pattern. Actually, this - much of this survey material has never been published, unfortunately.
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The part of the survey that we did publish had to do with northern Sinaloa and the Wasabe complex.
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The only publishing we did on the, on the northern Sonora we did was in terms of a brief sort of summary account.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
Were they collections that--
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"} --they're collections which are still here in the museum, yes. There's material of great interest and there are others who have been, who have working in the area and have been using these collections that we have here.

[00:24:27] But even yet there's no real patterning that has come out of the central Sonora material. It looks like an area of relatively low cultures throughout the entire
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