Past Projects

1965-1968

Background of Urban Civilization in the Basin of Mexico, a three-year study of the pre-Classic horizon of Central Mexico: Paul Tolstoy (Honorary Fellow) (National Science Foundation grant of $21,500 in 1965).

1965

Assist publication of a paleographic version of another important Colonial document, "Visita de la Provincia de Leon de Huánuco en 1562, Iñigo Ortiz de Zúñiga, visitador." Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán in Huánuco, Peru under the direction of John V. Murra with essays by Robert Bird and Donald Thompson (IAR grant of $1000).

1963-1966

A Study of Provincial Inca Life: John V. Murra (National Science Foundation grant of $89,300). American assistants:  Robert Bird and Donald Thompson.

1963

Publication of a larger edition of "Aboriginal Cultural Development in Latin America: An Interpretative Review," edited by Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans and published as Volume 146, Number 1 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (additional 500 copies might be distributed free to Latin American archaeologists).

1962-1963

Preparation and publication of an important Colonial document in Seville, "Visita hecha a la Provincia de Chucuito por Garci Diez de San Miguel en el año 1567," edited by Waldemar Espinoza Soriano and published by the Peruvian Casa de Cultura in 1964 ($1000).

1962

Writing up excavations in El Salvador: Stanley Boggs (Honorary Fellow).

1962

National Science Foundation funding for three years of $40,700 + $32,300, Gordon Ekholm PI, Clifford Evans proposal and progress reports:

  1. Central Pacific Coast of Mexico C. W. Meighan and H. B. Nicholson
  2. South Pacific Coast of Mexico G. F. Ekholm and Matthew Wallrath
  3. Coastal Guatemala M. D. Coe and K. V. Flannery
  4. Coastal Nicaragua G. F. Ekholm and A. H. Norweb
  5. Pacific Coast of Panama C. R. McGimsey III and Olga Linares
  6. North Coast, Colombia Carlos Angulo Valdés
  7. Pacific Coast of Colombia G. and A. Reichel-Dolmatoff

L Radiocarbon Dating (University of Michigan Low Radiation Laboratory).

1961

National Science Foundation funding for three years of $40,700, Gordon Ekholm PI:

  1. Central Pacific Coast of Mexico C. W. Meighan and H. B. Nicholson
  2. South Pacific Coast of Mexico G. F. Ekhohn and Matthew Wallrath
  3. Pacific Coast of Panama C. R. McGimsey III and Olga Linares
  4. North Coast, Colombia Carlos Angulo Valdés
  5. Pacific Coast of Colombia J. Coastal Ecuador G. and A. Reichel-Dolmatoff
  6. Coastal Ecuador Evans and B. J. Meggers

1960

National Science Foundation funding for three years of $40,700, Gordon Ekholm PI:

  1. Central Pacific Coast of Mexico H. B. Nicholson
  2. South Pacific Coast of Mexico G. F. Ekholm and Matthew Wallrath

Coastal Guerrero, Mexico C. F. and E. S. Brush

  1. Coastal Costa Rica M. D. Coe
  2. North Coast, Colombia Carlos Angulo Valdéz
  3. Pacific Coast of Colombia G. and A. Reichel-Dolmatoff

1949-1957

Archaeological investigations at Palenque: Gordon F. Ekholm ($44,000 from  the Hon. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller).

1953

The Wenner-Gren Foundation (formerly the Viking Fund) made a grant of $1,000, which was used to assist the archaeological field work of Paul Tolstoy in Mexico.

1950

A. V. Kidder and Gordon F. Ekholm, the then President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Institute, accompanied Charles Bird on a privately-sponsored exploratory voyage along the coasts of British Honduras, Honduras, and the Bay Islands.

Robert L. Rands was appointed an Honorary Fellow for the duration of his projected field work on ceramic studies to be carried out at Palenque in association with Alberto Ruz.

1949-1961

Generous individual contributions, often repeated in subsequent years by the same donor, were received in the period commencing in 1949 and continuing through 1961. These were used by the Institute to assist the following scholars:

Extra publication costs on an article on Peruvian metalwork: William C. Root, for (contributions from the Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, Samuel K. Lothrop, Adolph W. Schmidt, Lawrence Roys, Copley Amory, Jr., Harold Kaye, Ralph Roys, Mrs. Virginia Pollock, and Mrs. Gardner Cornett).

Publication on Cornell University's project at Vicos in Peru: Allan R. Holmberg (contributions from the Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, Samuel K. Lothrop, Adolph W. Schmidt, Lawrence Roys, Copley Amory, Jr., Harold Kaye, Ralph Roys, Mrs. Virginia Pollock, and Mrs. Gardner Cornett).

Archaeological work at Cuzco in Peru; Manuel Chávez Ballón, (contributions from the Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, Samuel K. Lothrop, Adolph W. Schmidt, Lawrence Roys, Copley Amory, Jr., Harold Kaye, Ralph Roys, Mrs. Virginia Pollock, and Mrs. Gardner Cornett).

Dorothy Menzel, for ceramic studies of the Huari-Tiahuanaco style in Peru; (contributions from the Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, Samuel K. Lothrop, Adolph W. Schmidt, Lawrence Roys, Copley Amory, Jr., Harold Kaye, Ralph Roys, Mrs. Virginia Pollock, and Mrs. Gardner Cornett).

Marshall T. Newman, for food-supplement studies at Vicos; (contributions from the Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, Samuel K. Lothrop, Adolph W. Schmidt, Lawrence Roys, Copley Amory, Jr., Harold Kaye, Ralph Roys, Mrs. Virginia Pollock, and Mrs. Gardner Cornett).

Further ceramic studies at Palenque: Robert L. Rands (contributions from the Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, Samuel K. Lothrop, Adolph W. Schmidt, Lawrence Roys, Copley Amory, Jr., Harold Kaye, Ralph Roys, Mrs. Virginia Pollock, and Mrs. Gardner Cornett).

1949

Emil W. Haury was appointed an Honorary Fellow for the duration of his projected field work in the Chibcha region of Colombia.

1947-1948

Richard Schaedel of Yale University was appointed an Honorary Fellow from July 1, 1947 through January 31, 1948 while he made a study of central Andean stone carving.

1945-1946

The Virú Valley Program

  1. Geography of the Modern Valley. F. Webster McBryde.
  2. Ethnology and Sociology of the Modern Valley. Allan R. Holmberg and Jorge C. Muelle.
  3. Stratigraphy of the Late Prehistoric Periods. Donald Collier.
  4. Stratigraphy of the Early Prehistoric Periods. William Duncan Strong and Clifford Evans.
  5. The Preceramic Periods' of the North Coast. Junius B. Bird.
  6. Intensive Study of the Gallinazo Period. Wendell C. Bennett.
  7. Cultural Dating of Prehistoric Sites by Surface Survey. James A. Ford.
  8. Study of Prehistoric Settlement Patterns. Gordon R. Willey.

1947-1948

Richard Schaedel of Yale University was appointed an Honorary Fellow from July 1, 1947 through January 31, 1948 while he made a study of central Andean stone carving.

1945

Investigation pre-Hispanic metallurgy and metalwork: William C. Root, Department of Chemistry at Bowdoin College.

Research in Peru: Harry Tschopik (Honorary Fellow).

1944-1945

Studies of Indian communities in Ecuador: Aníbal Buitrón Chávez and his wife, Barbara Salisbury de Buitrón ( Honorary Fellows).

1942-1943

Work at the Museum of Anthropology in Magdalena Vieja, Lima, Peru: Julio C. Tello (contributions from Mrs. Truxton Beale).

1944-1945

Project 1. Eastern Mexico. George C. Vaillant, Director; Gordon F. Ekholm, Supervisor; Mrs. Ekholm; and Wilfredo du Solier.

Project 2. Western Mexico. Alfred L. Kroeber, Director; Isabel T. Kelly, Supervisor; and James Gavan.

Project 3. Central Coast of Peru. William Duncan Strong, Director; Gordon R. Willey, Supervisor; Mrs. Willey; John M. Corbett; and Mrs. Corbett.

Project 4. Northern Coast of Chile. William Duncan Strong, Director; Junius B. Bird, Supervisor; Mrs. Bird; Grete Mostny; and Hugo Yavar.

Project 5. Cuba and Venezuela. Cornelius Osgood, Director; Irving Rouse, Assistant Director; George D. Howard, Supervisor; Mrs. Rouse; Mrs. Howard; and Carlos Garcia Robiou.

Project 6. Colombia. Wendell C. Bennett, Director; James A. Ford, Supervisor; Mrs. Ford; Gregorio Hernandez de Alba; Luis Duque Gomez; and Luis Alfonso Sanchez.

Project 7. Southern Highlands of Peru. Alfred Kidder II, Director; John Howland Rowe, Supervisor; Marion Hutchinson Tschopik, Assistant Supervisor; Jose M. Franco Inojoso; and Gabriel Escobar.

Project 8. Paracas, and Physical Anthropology of the Central Coast of Peru. Samuel K. Lothrop and Julio C. Tello, Codirectors; and Marshall T. Newman, Supervisor.

Project 9.

  1. Northern Highlands of Peru. Alfred L. Kroeber, Director; and Theodore D. McCown, Supervisor.
  2. Southern Highlands of Ecuador. Fay-Cooper Cole, Director; Donald Collier, Assistant Director; John V. Murra, Supervisor; and Anlbal Buitrón Chávez.

Project 10. El Salvador. Alfred Vincent Kidder, Director; John M. Longyear III, Supervisor; and Stanley H. Boggs.