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FOREWORD I DIDnot undertake this project, the reprinting ofthis well-known volume, without trepidation. As series editor of the University of Alabama Press's Classics in Southeastern Archaeology, I was quite familiar with the "drill." But still, this was a volume written not by nineteenth-century notables such as Charles C. Jones or Clarence B. Moore but instead the work of three old friends with whom I had had many decades of personal interaction. Did the work qualify as a "classic?" The volume indeed passes that test, but I hesitated for other reasons-not the least of which was finding funding for the publication of this rather large volume. Butwhat are old friends for? Now reaching backin time, in an almost archaeological manner, I would like to acknowledge the continued support and thoughtfulness of a very old friend ofPhil Phillips, Albert Hamilton Gordon . He was a member of the Harvard class of 1921 and knew Phillips in Buffalo, New York, just after they had both graduated from college. Gordon regularly went to Buffalo on business for his father's company. There in those early days he met both Phillips and his bride, Ruth, a number oftimes. They never forgot that early connection. I first met Gordon in the fall of 1967, when he had just been made chairman of the Peabody Museum's visiting committee. He had also just become a member of Harvard's Board of Overseers , and the Peabody had just had its lOOth anniversary . It was thus my task, as the newly appointed director ofHarvard's Peabody Museum, to help Gordon understand the complexities and problems of that wonderful old anthropological treasure. He was an easy learner, and we became fast friends. I even taught some of his grandchildren and also, much later, worked with him on a maritime antiquity, the vessel Snow Squall. Speaking ofcentenary-year anniversaries, some Harvard friends asked me to help celebrate Gordon's own 100th birthday in 2001 by handwriting a letter to be included in a small volume honoring that event. I am happy now to thank the Albert H. Gordon Foundation for its generous subvention for the reprinting of this important volume. Old friends don't forget. It was a marvelous surprise that we could turn that fifty-some-year-old "Peabody Paper" into a great 2003 monograph. Deep and heartfelt thanks to all who made this volume possible. Stephen Williams August 28, 2002 ...

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