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After the war, Andrews returned to his archaeological duties at the
Mesoamerican Research Institute at Tulane University. For the academic year 1950â1951 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. Andrews devoted the last 40 years of his life to the study of the Mayan civilization, dedicating particular focus to
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on the subject of Maya hieroglyphics and herpetology. He accompanied
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