Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Right.

Or I've worked on places where it's like, um, you know, as I said, I think I told you before we started, sort of started this today, you know, places where you've had to evacuate or it's like, oh, you know, like there are people coming to kill us.

So, you know, that's what, so like those kinds of places, um, yeah, there's in those regions, there's going to be those places where you will find this.

If I had to say like a big untapped area right now,

It probably wouldn't be Mesoamerica.

It'd probably be sort of lower Central America or Amazonia.

That's ground zero for that sort of thing.

So...

I tend to avoid all that stuff, or I try to avoid it as much as I can, right?

Prudent.

It's prudent.

I've been in situations where, like, for example, that site I was talking about, Sepoto Ball, used to work there.

I was working there in the early 2000s.

And at that point, the cartels in Mexico were being pretty heavily, you know, policed by the folks in Mexico.

And so what was happening is you had sort of cartel activity moving across the border from Mexico into Guatemala, right?

And the area that I was in was kind of ground zero for a lot of that stuff happening where people were moving in.

There were in our archaeologists who were working deep inside that territory.

The area that I was in was not in the territory yet.

And so we made the decision, in accordance with the Guatemalan government, to take a couple of the stele that were at the site that I was at and move those things off-site

basically to the Guatemala City Museum where they still are.