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Oral History Interview with Justin and Barbara Kerr, undertake by Joshua Wilson and James Curtin on the telephone on July 19, 2013. Justin and Barbara Kerr donated their photographic archive to the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) of Dumbarton Oaks in order that it will remain available to any and all researchers in perpetuity.

The Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations used complex and multiple timekeeping systems for purposes of agriculture, worship, and political authority. Because little of the material record of the pre-Conquest peoples of the Americas survived, scholars through the ages have had limited primary sources to study to reach a comprehensive understanding of timekeeping in the Americas.