Saving Past and Future Irreplaceable Collections and Facilitating Future Archaeological Research in Central Mexico

1986/7年度，美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）向美国科学博士(dr。乔治·考吉尔和苏珊·埃文斯在墨西哥特奥蒂瓦坎建造了一个考古研究中心。墨西哥北部盆地包含许多大型考古遗址，其中特奥蒂瓦坎最为著名，这些遗址记录了复杂的中美洲文化的兴起，这些遗址一直是美国国家科学基金会数十年来支持研究的重点。由于墨西哥政府缺乏足够的资源来储存挖掘出来的材料，并为科学家提供工作空间，一项美国国家科学基金会的拨款允许建造一个包括储存、工作和生活空间的中心。在过去的十多年里，该中心为许多国家科学基金会支持的项目提供了基础。结果，存储空间现在被超过一百万个对象填满了。主存储/工作单元是在期望最终会增加第二层的情况下牢固地建立起来的，该奖项为这一点和其他相关改进提供了资金。扩建后的中心将在未来几十年里为这一战略地区的考古和相关研究提供基础设施，并将提供对可能丢失的材料的管理。亚利桑那州立大学捐赠了相应的资金，考吉尔博士将继续监督中心的管理。

In 1986/7 the National Science Foundation awarded funds to Drs. George Cowgill and Susan Evans to construct an archaeological research center in Teotihuacan, Mexico. The northern basin of Mexico contains many large archaeological sites - of which Teotihuacan is the most famous - which document the rise of complex Mesoamerican cultures and these have been the focus of decades of NSF supported research. Because the Mexican government lacks adequate resources to store excavated materials and to provide work space for scientists, an NSF grant allowed the construction of a center which includes storage, work and living space. In over a decade of existence the center has provided base for many NSF supported projects. As a result, storage space is now filled to capacity with well over a million objects. The main storage/work unit was solidly built in the expectation that a second story would eventually be added and this award provides funds for this and other related improvements. The enlarged center will provide the infrastructure for archaeological and related research in this strategic region for many decades to come and will provide for the curation of materials that would otherwise be lost. Arizona State University has donated matching funds and Dr. Cowgill will continue to oversee center administration.