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    On the Age of Maya Ruins
    On the Age of Maya Ruins
    On the Age of Maya Ruins
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    On the Age of Maya Ruins

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      Title: On the Age of Maya Ruins

      Author: Charles P. Bowditch

      Release Date: March 30, 2012 [EBook #39310]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON THE AGE OF MAYA RUINS ***

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      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

      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

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