Book Collection
Marion Stirling donated around 5000 volumes from Matthew Stirling's library to the Boundary End Archaeology Research Center (earlier the Center for Maya Research). They include a collection of scholarly pamphlets and reprints from the mid-19th century on, complete runs of the American Anthropologist (1881 - ); American Antiquity (1935 - ), Bulletins 1-200 and Annual Reports 1-48 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and all the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History.
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