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monuments, Dr. Drucker made tests to locate an occupational zone, 
and dug a deep stratigraphic trench to optain ceramic materials to 
define the culture horizon to which the monuments belong. The 
material from these investigations will be of inestimable value in 
tying in the monuments with those of Tres Zapotes and La Venta, and 
defining the ancient “Olmec” culture. 
Following the close of the expedition’s camp in mid-April, Dr. 
Drucker proceeded to the neighboring state of Chiapas to carry out 
reconnaissance planned to supplement that done by Dr. Stirling the 
previous year. He was able to locate a number of caves containing 
offerings or caches of pottery vessels from pre-Spanish times, and 
made collections which were shipped to Mexico City for ultimate 
shipment to Washington. In addition to the caves, a number of 
extensive village sites were discovered which contained not only 
remains of stone houses but also ball courts and great ceremonial 
structures of masonry. 
On May 21 Dr. Drucker proceeded to Mexico City where the San 
Lorenzo and Chiapas collections were inspected by officers of the 
Museo Nacional de Mexico, and where, through the courtesy of those 
officers, permission was obtained to ship the collections to Washington 
for study and for preparation of reports for publication. While the 
shipping permit was going through necessary channels, Dr. Drucker 
availed himself of the opportunity of studying ceramic and jade col- 
lections in the Museo Nacional, and to visit sites in the central highland 
where important discoveries have been made in recent years, such as 
Tula, in the state of Hidalgo, and Xochicalco, in Morelos. At the end 
of the fiscal year he was completing preparations to return to 
Washington, 
During the month of July 1945 Dr. Gordon Willey, anthropologist, 
was entirely oecupied in completing a 50,000-word manuscript en- 
titled “Excavations in Southeast Florida.” This paper will make 
available the results of the archeological field program carried out 
in south Florida in 1933-36 by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 
conjunction with the State of Florida. 
From August 1945 to February 1946 Dr. Willey was primarily 
engaged in editorial work on the final volumes of the Handbook of 
South American Indians. The fifth and last volume of this work 
was submitted to the editor of the Bureau at the end of February, 
with the exception of part 3, “The languages of South America,” 
which is being prepared by Dr. J. Alden Mason. During this period 
a 25,000-word article on South American ceramics was prepared for 
inclusion in the Handbook, and a 3,000-word article on the archeology 
of the Argentine pampas was prepared to be published as part of a 
Yale University symposium on Argentine archeology. 
