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{SPEAKER name="William C. Sturtevant"}
So I would think that perhaps in the 40s, we saw a greater push in Middle American archaeology than we have in any other decade.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
My old work in the 40s was where they're buried in the

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
in the Natural History Museum.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
In 1944, we did a new, or is it a renewal, of holocentral Mexican Central American archaeology.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Which is, of course, took a considerable amount of time in doing. Although it wasn't a complete renewal.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
It served to develop my feeling for middle America however.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
I hadn't mentioned the fact that about the time we were

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
early in the 1940s when we were doing our work in western Mexico, we made a side trip into

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Guerrero to do some excavation at a site within the city of Acapulco or what was then the town of Acapulco.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Went back a few years later, a few years ago and tried to find the site, and it was all paved over.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
But that, although it was a very minor, small job, was published only partially in the report of the

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Roundtable Conference on western Mexico. It served to give me a feeling for this coastal area, the Pacific Coast.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
And which--