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Lewis Binford

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Gordon Willey

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Kent Flannery

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Linda Schele

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George Bass

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Robert McC. Adams

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Michael D. Coe

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Samuel Noah Kramer

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Richard S. MacNeish

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Alfred V. Kidder

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John V. Murra

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James B. Griffin

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William T. Sanders

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Patty Jo Watson

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Vance Haynes

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Sylvanus Morley

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Hiram Bingham

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William Rathje

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Albert C. Spaulding

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