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G: in those days, which makes it a little harder to distribute copies widely, but the

 last faint carbons from his Manatee River paper which was just about to appear in

 the American Antiquity, and he presented that at the meeting. John presented some

 of his schema that he was clarifying and working on of the periods and areas in the

 state. John Gulligan. Mainly, it was a real inter, and we were reporting, Hale and I

 were reporting on some of the stuff that hadn't printed yet, but we'd just been working

 on and digging. Matter of fact, we'd been working that summer on -ber ieCree- site

 right there in Volusia County and several other things. It was really just meeting of

 the minds, and you get an awful lot of that sort at a conference of two or three days

 length, various peoples ideas about what the problems are, what the needs are for

 research needs and we set a big blackboard there- we took Goggan's periods, or his

 areas, periods and just started going into them. Matter of fact, we started chronologi-

 cally. We started with, well, what do we know about early man in Florida which i -,

 ,. 'i r- think of 4

W: Some of the earlier reports,Vero

G: Right, and some of the stuff that, well, Jenks had published those things from the

 Santa Fe River,the bone points resembling a clovis

 And of course, we knew that we had quote folsom points running around, but not much

 detail, certainly and then moved on up through the various sort of areas and periods.

 Then one of the things that that did was remind all of us of some of the places that

 we knew the least, things we knew the least about.

W: So it gave you some areas to check, right.

G: Although, it was already beginning to develop that there was some sort of territoriality

W: Smithsonian, you mean, in part there?

G: Well, not really, the main ones, they weren't coming back particularly, but John

 Gcggan felt that south Florida was his, and actually, for years, except for having

 toured part of the area with him, showed us a lot of the sites and shared his knowledge

 of the area, but we just didn't go down much into south Florida. I went one day on

 request to o) Island, but beyond that, I was