Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology. John D. Baldwin

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664566706

      Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       ANCIENT AMERICA.

       I. THE MOUND-BUILDERS.

       THE MOUND-BUILDERS—THEIR WORKS.

       EXTENT OF THEIR SETTLEMENTS.

       THEIR CIVILIZATION.

       THEIR ANCIENT MINING WORKS.

       II. ANTIQUITY OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS.

       HOW LONG WERE THEY HERE?

       III. WHO WERE THE MOUND-BUILDERS?

       NOT ANCESTORS OF THE WILD INDIANS.

       BRERETON’S STORY.

       AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.

       WHO WERE THE MOUND-BUILDERS?

       IV. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

       THE NORTHERN REMAINS.

       THE “SEVEN CITIES OF CEVOLA.”

       CENTRAL MEXICO.

       THE GREAT RUINS AT THE SOUTH.

       CHARACTER OF THE SOUTHERN RUINS.

       V. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

       PALENQUE.

       COPAN AND QUIRIGUA.

       MITLA.

       AN ASTRONOMICAL MONUMENT.

       RUINS FARTHER SOUTH.

       THE RUINS IN YUCATAN.

       MAYAPAN.

       UXMAL.

       KABAH.

       CHICHEN-ITZA.

       OTHER RUINS IN YUCATAN.

       VI. ANTIQUITY OF THE RUINS.

       DISTINCT ERAS TRACED.

       NOTHING PERISHABLE LEFT.

       “THE OLDEST OF CIVILIZATIONS.”

       AMERICAN CITIES SEEN BY TYRIANS.

       VII. WHENCE CAME THAT OLD CIVILIZATION?

       THE “LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.”

       THE “MALAY” THEORY.

       THE PHŒNICIAN THEORY.

       THE “ATLANTIC” THEORY.

       IT WAS AN ORIGINAL CIVILIZATION.

       VIII. AMERICAN ANCIENT HISTORY.

       THE OLD BOOKS NOT ALL LOST.

       THE ANCIENT HISTORY SKETCHED.

       THE TOLTECS OUR MOUND-BUILDERS.

       SOME CONFIRMATION OF THIS HISTORY.

       IX. THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION.

       THE DISCOVERY AND INVASION.

       THE CITY OF MEXICO.

       THE CONQUEST.

       WHO WERE THE AZTECS?