Matthew Stirling

Matthew Williams Stirling (Salinas, Califórnia, 1896 – 23 de Janeiro de 1975) foi um etnólogo, arqueólogo dos Estados Unidos da América. É mais bem conhecido por suas descobertas sobre a civilização olmeca.

Films de Stirling

Preservados no Human Studies Film Archive, Suitland, Maryland

• Exploring Hidden Mexico - Documenta as escavações de La Venta e Cerro de las Mesas.
• Hunting Prehistory on Panama’s Unknown North Coast -Documenta as escavações de 1952 em sítios do norte do Panamá
• Aboriginal Darien : Past and Present - Documenta a flora, fauna e etnografia de partes do Panamá durante uma viagem em 1954
• In the Trail of Prehistoric America - Documenta uma expedição ao Equador em 1957, juntamente com uma curta filmagem etnográfica dos índios Colorado.
• Mexico in Fiesta Masks
• Uncovering an Ancient Mexican Temple
• Exploring Panama’s Prehistoric Past
• Uncovering Mexico’s Forgotten Treasures

Bibliografia

• America's First Settlers, the Indians National Geographic, 1937
• Great Stone Faces of the Mexican Jungle National Geographic, 1940
• An Initial Series from Tres Zapotes Mexican Archaeology Series, National Geographic, 1942
• Origin myth of Acoma and other records BAE Bulletin 135, 1942
• Finding Jewels of Jade in a Mexican Swamp (with Marion Stirling) National Geographic, 1942
• La Venta’s Green Stone Tigers National Geographic, 1943
• Stone Monuments of Southern Mexico BAE Bulletin 138, 1943
• Indians of the Southeastern United States National Geographic, 1946
• On the Trail of La Venta Man National Geographic, 1947
• Haunting Heart of the Everglades/Indians of the Far West (com A. H. Brown) National Geographic, 1948
• Stone Monuments of the Río Chiquito BAE Bulletin 157, 1955
• Indians of the Americas National Geographic Society, 1955
• The use of the atlatl on Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan BAE Bulletin 173, 1960
• Electronics and Archaeology (com F. Rainey e M. W. Stirling Jr) Expedition Magazine, 1960
• Monumental Sculpture of Southern Veracruz and Tabasco Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1965
• Early History of the Olmec Problem Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec, 1967
• Solving the mystery of Mexico's Great Stone Spheres National Geographic, 1969
• Historical and ethnographical material on the Jivaro Indians BAE Bulletin 117
• An archeological reconnaissance in Southeastern Mexico BAE Bulletin 164
• Tarquí, an early site in Manabí Province, Ecuador (com Marion Stirling) BAE Bulletin 186
• Archaeological notes on Almirante Bay, Panama (com Marion Stirling) BAE Bulletin 191
• Archaeology of Taboga, Urabá, and Taboguilla Islands, Panama (com Marion Stirling) BAE Bulletin 191
• El Limón, an early tomb site in Coclé Province Panama (com Marion Stirling) BAE Bulletin 191