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Transcription: {SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
[01:09:13]
--prove archaeology as science rather than something else, rather than a, a art, or a subject of more general reasoning. They have attempted to be, base conclusions on things which could be handled and things which could be definitely accounted and arranged, etcetera. I think that much of the attitudes have also been dependent on, in American archaeologist, on the fact that archaeological theory was mainly directed toward primitive peoples entirely.

[01:10:11]
The American, or anthropology, up until recent years was mainly concerned with primitive peoples. The archeologists who were trained in American schools were concerned with the archaeology of relatively primitive peoples. They did not do much with the civilizations of middle and South America and when they did get to them, they really did not handle the more elaborate cultural remains.

[01:10:46]
Many archaeologists from this country go to Mexico and, or to South America and they count pot shards. They don't really look at architecture or attempt to study the architecture of the Maya or other areas or of the complex arts.

[01:11:05]
It's not surprising then that, of all the American archeologists who have worked in Mexico, only now is someone attempting to study--
[01:11:18]