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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
Many factors contribute to the result that archaeological field research in Middle America is done, not, as generally in the United States, by many small expeditions from many institutions, but by a few organizations whose activities are mainly or entirely devoted to this region. In recent years the Mexican government, the assistance of which is now embodied in the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the American Museum of Natural History, have contributed the major part of such research. For several years past, the joint expeditions of the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institution have taken an important part, and during the season of 1941–1942 three expeditions of the Institute of Andean Research, under the auspices of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, carried on excavations in Middle America.
1 Dr. Eckholm's report, Publication la of the Institute of Andean Research, is announced as “Excavations at Tampico and Panuco in the Huasteca.” Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 39, pt. 1.
2 For further information on Michoacán, see “An Archaeological Survey of the Rio Tepalcatepec Basin” by John M. Goggin, and “An Archaeologic Reconnaisance in Southeastern Michoacán, Mexico” by Douglas Osborne, below.
3 Dr. Kelly's report, “Excavations in Western Jalisco,” Publication 2a of the Institute of Andean Research, will be published as No. 25 of Ibero-Americana by the University of California
4 The Antillean work of The Institute of Andean Research, projects 5c and 5e, has appeared as Nos. 25 and 26 of Yale University Publications in Anthropology: The Ciboney Culture of Cayo Redondo, Cuba by Cornelius Osgood, and Archaeology of the Maniabón Hills, Cuba by Irving Rouse.
5 Longyear's report, “Excavations in Salvador,” will appear as Publication 10a of The Institute of Andean Research, as Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 9, No. 2.
