Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribe of natives in Guatemala who still observe the ancient Mayan religious customs, is all that remains today of a civilization which extends back over a period of 2,500 years," said Professor A. M. Tozzer '00, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday on the history of the Mexican Indian Civilizations...
...Spanish priests, after the conquest of the country in the sixteenth century, did all they could to stamp out the old religion and in a large measure succeeded. Down through the entire Yucatan the old cults have ceased to exist, but in the brush of Guatemala a few traces of them have survived the Eurobeen encroachments of the last four centuries...
...earliest dated inscription is on a small jade statuette of 96 B.C. The great cities of Northern Guatemala flourished from the beginning of the Christian era until about...
...they were each discoverable by a small temple seen from the sea, and might be approached in a launch by a creek or canal leading to a lake, lagoon or bay. These cities were on the trade route between northern Yucatan and Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like Dr. Gann, the Mason-Spinden expedition found some of the ancient shrines still in use by Indian hunters and chicle* workers, who mingle Catholic and Mayan rites in their worship. Next week TIME will catalog archeological findings in Europe, Asia, Africa...
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