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A FEATURE to be noted in the most recent developments of archæological research in the field is an increase in specialisation, and where financial considerations will permit, the supplementing of the purely archæological work by research in other branches of science which can be made to assist in the interpretation of archaeological results in their bearing on the general problem of the history of man and the development of his culture, whether considered regionally or in its broader aspect. Thus Dr. A. V. Kidder, in his report as chairman of the Historical Section of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Year Book No. 31), remarks: “It is difficult to escape the conviction that only by coordinated research involving the cooperation of all the disciplines devoted to the study of man and the collateral support of many biological and physical sciences can we attain understanding of any given episode in human history.”
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Central American Research by the Carnegie Institution. Nature 131, 809 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131809a0
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