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wares respectively. Lothrop (1933, p. 62) believes that the elements 

 shared in common by the earliest known cultural horizons in the high- 

 lands and the Atlantic lowlands of Guatemala were derived, not from 

 one another, but from' a parent culture to the south. When the 

 Uaxactun materials are available, the role of the southern Playa de 

 los Muertos culture as a donor or a recipient may be tested. These 

 are questions for the future but, thanks to the growing scientific 

 vogue of the shovel, they are questions that may soon be answered. 



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