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Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, lecture and research notes, a bibliography, and other papers relating to Professor Willey's archaeological interests and associations. Topics and concerns include research and methodological problems; lectures on New World prehistory; interpretation of archaeological remains; ceramic and artifactual analysis; settlement patterns; publishing; recommendations; curatorial matters; Dumbarton Oaks; the archaeological profession in the United States; and issues and problems in Maya and New World archaeology. For information on component parts of collection, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below

Gordon Randolph Willey (1913-2002), archaeologist, taught at Harvard University from 1950 to 1987. The bulk of Willey's papers consists of correspondence with other archaeologists, much of it written during Willey's time at Harvard. The collection also includes memoranda, reports, lecture and research notes, a bibliography, and other papers relating to his archaeological interests and associations, spanning from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Includes notecards on "finds," packing lists, and photographs apparently used by Ladd in the preparation of his Archeological Investigations in the Parita and Santa Maria Zones of Panama, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 193, 1964. There are also notes on specimens by Gordon Randolph Willey.

Includes separate folders with letters received while on field trips, carbon copies of requests for detail and various personnel matters, for the following: Philip Drucker, William N. Fenton, John Peabody Harrington, Matthew William Stirling, John Reed Swanton, Gordon R. Willey.

This negative collection documents Professor Gordon Willey's Peabody expedition to British Honduras 1954-1956. The images capture camp life, excavations and artifacts and they may be viewed at http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/

Consists of five field notebooks describing monuments at Seibal

Consists of the professional papers of archaeologist James C. Gifford dating from the 1920s to the early 2000s. The bulk of the collection is composed of records for the journal Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al. This publication was a key platform for collating scholarship on Mayan ceramics. Also included in the papers are items such as Gifford's journal of his 1952 trip to Tarahumara settlements in Mexico, extensive ceramic typology research files, publication materials for his study of the Barton Ramie site in Belize, the records of a joint project with Watson Smith on Awatovi corrugated ceramics, and extensive correspondence files from scholars around the world involved in pottery research. These papers document the conceptual development of the type:variety-mode approach to the study of prehistoric ceramics.

Also records of galley and page proofs.

The Alfred Marston Tozzer papers are organized into three major records groups: A. the Professional papers, B. Personal papers, and C. Margaret Castle Tozzer papers. The material reveals the close connections between Alfred Marston Tozzer's personal and professional lives and documents his extensive contacts in the academic community and the Boston society in which he lived. Margaret's papers document both her husband's professional work and her family's contributions to Boston's art and anthropology communities.