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On the Age of Maya Ruins

Charles P. Bowditch

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .> ON THE AGE OF MAYA RUINS

 

BY

CHARLES P. BOWDITCH

 

(From the American Anthropologist (N. S.), Vol. 3, October-December, 1901)

 

NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1901

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ON THE AGE OF MAYA RUINS

By CHARLES P. BOWDITCH

The inscription lately discovered in Chichen Itza by Edward H. Thompson, United States Consul at Merida, is of more than passing interest. It contains an Initial Series of glyphs, which, so far as I know, gives the only initial date that has been found in the northern part of Yucatan.

Although it may be a matter of doubt on what date the long count declared by the Initial Series began, yet, if we assume that the majority of the initial dates refer to the time when the buildings or stelæ on which the dates occur we. . . Read More