failed to publish these projects. Several decades later Christina Elson and other scholars at the American Museum of Natural History completed the study of artifacts from these sites and began a program to publish them. Vaillant shot himself in Devon, Pennsylvania in 1945, at the age of 44. His wife found him in their yard, a revolver next to him and a fatal wound through his head. The last person to see him alive was his elder son and namesake, George Eman Vaillant, who at that time was 10 years old.<ref> Major publications Vaillant, George C. (1930) Excavations at Zacatenco. Anthropological Papers vol. 32, no. 1. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Vaillant, George C. (1931) Excavations at Ticoman. Anthropological Papers vol. 32, no. 2. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Vaillant, George C. (1935) Excavations at El Arbolillo. Anthropological Papers vol. 35, no. 2. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Vaillant, George C. (1939) Indian Arts in North America. Harper and Brothers, New York. Vaillant, George C. (1941) Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation. Doubleday Doran, Garden City. External links Mexican and Central American Archaeological Projects – Electronic articles published by the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. References American Mesoamericanists Mayanists Aztec scholars Harvard University alumni Mesoamerican archaeologists Mesoamerican anthropologists 20th-century Mesoamericanists 1901 births 1945 deaths People associated with the American Museum of Natural History Suicides by firearm in Pennsylvania Noble and Greenough School alumni 20th-century American scientists Scientists from Boston 20th-century American anthropologists 1945 suicides