Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. BaldwinHarper Brothers, 1872 - 299 Seiten |
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... terraces of various heights , mounds with several stages , elevated passages , and long avenues , and aguadas or artificial ponds , are common at the South . Figure 8 shows the remains of a graded way of this ancient people near Piketon ...
... terraces of various heights , mounds with several stages , elevated passages , and long avenues , and aguadas or artificial ponds , are common at the South . Figure 8 shows the remains of a graded way of this ancient people near Piketon ...
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... terrace , while they raised them promiscuously on all the others , it follows , not unreasonably , that this terrace has been formed since the works were erected . It is appa- rent , also , that in some cases the works were long ago ...
... terrace , while they raised them promiscuously on all the others , it follows , not unreasonably , that this terrace has been formed since the works were erected . It is appa- rent , also , that in some cases the works were long ago ...
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... terrace must be the longest , because the excavating power of such streams necessarily diminishes as their channels grow deeper . This geological change , which has taken place since the latest of the mounds and inclosures were con ...
... terrace must be the longest , because the excavating power of such streams necessarily diminishes as their channels grow deeper . This geological change , which has taken place since the latest of the mounds and inclosures were con ...
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... terraces of all the low and extended " mounds , " and smaller structures on the high mounds , such as those above named . There would seem to be an extension of ancient Mexico and Central Amer- ica through Texas into the Mississippi and ...
... terraces of all the low and extended " mounds , " and smaller structures on the high mounds , such as those above named . There would seem to be an extension of ancient Mexico and Central Amer- ica through Texas into the Mississippi and ...
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... terraces . At one place he excavated a terraced mound , and discovered burnt brick ; and he describes two ancient bridges of the Tlascalans , both built of hewn stone laid in cement , one of them being 200 feet long and 36 wide ...
... terraces . At one place he excavated a terraced mound , and discovered burnt brick ; and he describes two ancient bridges of the Tlascalans , both built of hewn stone laid in cement , one of them being 200 feet long and 36 wide ...
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