structures in the eastern part of Tayasal's Main Group and briefly excavated at two other locales in the same sector. Guthe never formally published any of his investigations, but he left excellent fieldnotes that will be incorporated into the final publication of the more recent work done at the site by the University of Pennsylvania. A 50-year hiatus separated his work from the next formal investigation of the Peten area; it was not until 1970 that William R. Coe of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania again took up the quest for the last of the Maya. During the two decades prior to Coe's renewed interest, the Preclassic and Classic period developments at Tikal had been abundantly documented; but even at Tikal, tantalizingly little had been archaeologically recovered from Postclassic times.