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Longhouse (American Indian, American Association on Indian 

 Affairs, vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 11-15, 1946). 



Integration of Geography and Anthropology in Army Area Study 

 Curricula (Bulletin American Association of University Professors, 

 vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 696-706, winter, 1946). 



Area studies in American universities (Commission on Implica- 

 tions, Armed Services Educational Programs, American Council on 

 Education, xi + 89 pp., Washington, 1947). 



In addition, several reviews were prepared and published in the 

 United States Quarterly Book List, and in other journals. 



Dr. Philip Drucker, anthropologist, returned to his official station 

 at Washington from Mexico at the beginning of the fiscal year. While 

 awaiting the arrival of the collections from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, 

 he began a study of the La Venta ceramic collections, excavated by 

 the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution expedition 

 in tlie spring of 1942. 



During the ensuing months he classified some 24,000 sherds from 

 the site of La Venta, recording descriptive data and stratigraphic dis- 

 tributions which will be embodied in the final report on the culture 

 rei^resented at this key site of Olmec culture. At the conclusion of 

 his study of these materials he prepared a brief paper entitled "Some 

 Implications of La Venta Ceramics," for the Smithsonian Miscellane- 

 ous Collections. 



On February 8, 1947, he proceeded from Washington to Mexico on a 

 joint expedition of the National Geographic Society and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. The purpose of this expedition was to make an 

 archeological survey of the Pacific coast of the state of Chiapas, 

 Mexico. From the time of his arrival in Tapachula, Chiapas, on 

 February 16, until his departure from Tonala, Chiapas, on May 24, 

 he tested 15 archeological sites, obtaining from each collections of 

 sherds ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 pieces on the average. Among 

 these sites were several whose ceramics indicated a relationship with 

 the Mixteca-Puebla area of the Highland, and which are probably to 

 be attributed to the late pre-Conquest intrusions of the Nahuatl-speak- 

 ing Pipil, colonies of whom penetrated as far southeastward as Nica- 

 ragua. Other sites yielded wares that indicate affiliation with more 

 ancient horizons, one such linking very definitely with the oldest ce- 

 ramic complex yet known from Guatemala Highland and coast : the 

 Miraflores horizon. One of the outstanding finds of the survey was the 

 discovery of a midden deposit over 3 meters in depth, containing pot- 

 tery in the upper 1.2 m., and no trace of ceramics below this point. This 

 site requires more extensive excavation than was possible during the 

 survey, but it is quite possible that it may contain the earliest remains 

 yet known from southern Mexico and Central America — perhaps pre- 



