Word: guatemala
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...Yucatan, Dr. Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason reached the definite conclusion that the Mayas originated in the Mexican highlands and in Guatemala, not being immigrants from Africa or Polynesia as has sometimes been suggested...
...Spanish Honduras. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann of the British Museum investigated engraved Mayan monoliths that furnished an accurate check on the calendar archaeologists have worked out for Mayan history. In Guatemala, Dr. Manuel Gamio of Mexico dug into highland strata, discovered archaic pottery and sculptures clearly pre-Mayan to support the theory that the Mayas' ancestors lived in the hills, whence earthquakes drove them to lower levels and firmer architecture...
...Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree. From its bark, when slit, issues a creamy white latex, delicate in taste, nourishing to man and beast...
...work has tended strongly to confirm the belief of the scientific world that Maya history saw a gradual shifting of population from the south to the north. Why magnificent southern cities like Copan in Northern Honduras and Tikal in Guatemala were abandoned is still a riddle. The exodus from them about 600 A. D. may have been caused by exhaustion of the soil or by epidemic or by some other danger yet unproved. But there seems no doubt that the Mayas did migrate gradually northward and that their cities in Northern Yucatan were the last ones they built...
...Toltecs had in their early days been strongly influenced by the early Maya culture in Guatemala. The great expansion of the Toltec Empire included practically all of the non-Maya peoples of Central and Southern Mexico, and as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica...