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Middle Tres Zapotes and the Pre-Classic Ceramic Sequence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

P. Drucker
P. Drucker*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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When in the past I have listened to writers of scientific reports bewailing the fact that their writings have been misunderstood or misinterpeted, I have been inclined to pass severe judgment: An author should be able to express what he thinks in a clear manner—no reader can be expected to read with the report in one hand and a crystal ball zeroed in on the author's mind in the other. Consequently when, on re-reading Wauchope's recent (1950) stimulating attempt at coordinating the welter of data on Mesoamerican ceramics, I find myself in the unhappy situation of having been misunderstood, I cannot but feel embarrassed. Wauchope obviously cannot be blamed for not being able to guess what I had been thinking while writing on the stratigraphy of Tres Zapotes pottery. It seems important to clarify the matter in order to avoid perpetuation of my error.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , January 1952 , pp. 258 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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