Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. BaldwinHarper Brothers, 1872 - 299 Seiten |
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... relic of the Ancient American civilization than this purpose seemed to require . The work is a summary , a kind of hand - book with notes and comments ; but I have aimed to make it comprehensive and complete . The suggestions in regard ...
... relic of the Ancient American civilization than this purpose seemed to require . The work is a summary , a kind of hand - book with notes and comments ; but I have aimed to make it comprehensive and complete . The suggestions in regard ...
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... Relics of art have been dug from some of the mounds , consisting of a considerable variety of ornaments and implements , made of copper , silver , obsidian , porphyry , and greenstone , finely wrought . There are axes , single and ...
... Relics of art have been dug from some of the mounds , consisting of a considerable variety of ornaments and implements , made of copper , silver , obsidian , porphyry , and greenstone , finely wrought . There are axes , single and ...
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... relic . " An ancient Peruvian relic , found a few years since , shows the figure of a man wrought in silver , in the act of studying the heavens through such a tube . Similar tubes have been found among relics of the Mound - Builders in ...
... relic . " An ancient Peruvian relic , found a few years since , shows the figure of a man wrought in silver , in the act of studying the heavens through such a tube . Similar tubes have been found among relics of the Mound - Builders in ...
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... relics left by the Mound - Builders will permit us to believe their stay in the country was short . Any hypothesis based on the shortest possible estimate of the time must count the years by centuries . III . WHO WERE THE MOUND ...
... relics left by the Mound - Builders will permit us to believe their stay in the country was short . Any hypothesis based on the shortest possible estimate of the time must count the years by centuries . III . WHO WERE THE MOUND ...
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... relics of the Mound - Builders themselves , no traces of the former existence of such a people have been discovered in any part of North Amer- ica save Mexico , and Central America , and districts im- mediately connected with them . At ...
... relics of the Mound - Builders themselves , no traces of the former existence of such a people have been discovered in any part of North Amer- ica save Mexico , and Central America , and districts im- mediately connected with them . At ...
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ages amautas ancient history antiquity appears Asia Atlantic Aztecs Biarni Brasseur de Bourbourg builders building built called Casa Central America character Chichimecs city of Mexico civilization Cloth coast Colhuas communities Conquest continent Copan copper Cortez covered Cuzco described dialects discovered edifices Egypt Eirek Europe existed explored extended feet high Figure forest gold Greenland hewn stone Huayna Capac hundred Iceland important Incas inclosures inhabitants inscriptions island Kabah known Kukulcan Lake Titicaca land Malays Mayapan Mayas mentioned Mexican Mexico and Central Mitla Montesinos monuments Mound-Builders mounds Nahuas native ocean Ohio old books old ruins older original ornaments Pacific palaces Palenque period Peru Peruvian Phoenicians preserved probably Pueblos pyramid Quichés race region relics remains remarkable sailed says sculptured seen settlements South America Spaniards Spanish structures summit supposed temple terrace thing tion Toltecs traditions Uxmal Valley Vinland vols voyage walls wild Indians writing Xibalba Yucatan