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DURING 1936 a joint archaeological expedition of the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard University excavated a number of sites in the Departments of Cortes, Yoro and Santa Barbara in north-west Honduras. The expedition, which was in the nature of an archaeological reconnaissance rather than a systematic exploration, had as its objective in part the extension of the exploratory work carried out by Dr. W. D. Strong in north-eastern Honduras on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution in 1933, in part, and more immediately, to carry further the work of Byron D. Gordon (1895-97) and of the late Mrs. Dorothy H. Popenoe (1928-29). Mrs. Popenoe's pioneer work at Playa de los Muertos, where Gordon also excavated, in affording valuable and much-needed evidence of the stratigraphical relations of early cultures in this region, had opened up new vistas in the study of the archaeology of Honduras. This evidence it was the purpose of the expedition to test and extend.
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Archæological Sequence in North-West Honduras. Nature 142, 501–503 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142501a0
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