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Transcription: [00:39:20]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Approach to things, the round table on Tula [?], ahhh was followed by 1 - a year later on the olmec, this took place in Tuktuktierras [[?]] and right at the end of our stay in Mexico this time.

[00:39:40]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
And also, was extremely important because it was just in this previous year that Matthew Sterling had discovered the olmec. And this perhaps is one of the most important developments of the 40s. [[chuckle]]

[00:40:04]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
The discovery of the olmec came like a bombshell, really, in Mexican archeology because it was uhhh - no one had placed the - knew anything about what became to be olmec a little bit later.

[00:40:26]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
I think perhaps the first time I ever heard of the olmec was at the Congress of Americas in Mexico in 1939 when George Valiant gave a paper on olmec-like sculptures and as [[inaudible]] argument as to whether George Valiant or who invented the term "olmec".

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Anyhow, in the early 40s, that was an extremely important development.

[00:40:54]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
The conference in Tuktuktierras [[?]], attended by many of the people working the Carnegie Institution program, of course, Matthew Sterling, who was just then discovering the venta [[?]] and the tres zapotes who worked the tres zapotes.