Research
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, C. Earle (Claude Earle), 1922-1987
setName: label: See more items in
content: C. Earle Smith Jr. papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.7 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2006-24, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in 4 sub-series: (2.1) Fieldwork, 1949-1950, 1960-1987; (2.2) Identifications, 1967-1991; (2.3) Grants, 1957-1958, 1969-1983; (2.4) Subject Files, 1942, 1954-1966, 1979-1980
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A large portion of this series is comprised of correspondence, notes, data, writings, and photographs associated with Smith's fieldwork in Latin America with Richard MacNeish in Tehuacán Valley; Kent Flannery in Oaxaca Valley; Paul Tolstoy in the Basin of Mexico; Ronald Spores in Nochixtlan; Terence Grieder in La Galgada, Peru; Thomas Lynch in Callejón de Huaylas, Peru; Joyce Marcus in Cañeta Valley, Peru; Anna Roosevelt in the Middle Orinoco area of Venezuela; and Michael J. Snarkis in Costa Rica. There are also photographs and a typed report from his trip to Cuba as a student for a seminar on tropical plants. Materials pertaining to his excavation of Bat Cave consist of a few pages of notes and newspaper articles about his discovery of the earliest known remains of corn at the site.

Other materials in this series are correspondence regarding his identifications of specimens for colleagues, grant applications and paperwork to fund his research, and subject files. 

For more research related materials, see also Series 1: Correspondence, Series 3: Writings, and Series 8: Photographs.