Abstract
This investigation is being conducted with the assistance of about two hundred men and women all over the country. They belong to widely different trades and come from diverse backgrounds. Included in their number are officials with a long period of university education; fishermen and peasants with only the compulsory seven years of schooling, but who are often self-educated to the extent of having become complete, albeit amateur scholars; housewives, craftsmen, and Members of Parliament. The majority of collaborators, however, are farmers and teachers. No matter what their trade or background, they all have one thing in common, a keen interest in the ancient culture of the area where they live, whether they grew up in that area or settled down to work there later in life.