Conquistadors Without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas : an Account with Original NarrativesLeo Deuel Schocken Books, 1974 - 599 pages |
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... known to or used by the Incan and pre - Incan races . But never had I discovered the mummy of an Inca . By that I do not mean the mummy of one of the Incan people . On the contrary , having been the most recent of Peruvian aboriginal ...
... known to or used by the Incan and pre - Incan races . But never had I discovered the mummy of an Inca . By that I do not mean the mummy of one of the Incan people . On the contrary , having been the most recent of Peruvian aboriginal ...
Page 188
... known re- ligious representations , students of Mexican antiquity were not yet mentally prepared to conceive of people more ancient than Toltecs and Aztecs , albeit Humboldt had had premonitions of them . However , in 1907 a ...
... known re- ligious representations , students of Mexican antiquity were not yet mentally prepared to conceive of people more ancient than Toltecs and Aztecs , albeit Humboldt had had premonitions of them . However , in 1907 a ...
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... known Zapotec carvings . Equally unfamiliar were the hieroglyphic signs inscribed on several of the slabs . To Caso , who had made a special study of Zapotec writing before excavating Monte Albán , this was one of the campaign's ...
... known Zapotec carvings . Equally unfamiliar were the hieroglyphic signs inscribed on several of the slabs . To Caso , who had made a special study of Zapotec writing before excavating Monte Albán , this was one of the campaign's ...
Contents
Alexander von Humboldt 37 | 3 |
CENTRAL AMERICA Panama and Nicaragua | 133 |
William Bullock | 169 |
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