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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...
...they do preserve certain relics of the old culture by still going through the outward manifestations of its religion. For instance they slit their ears with stone knives, worship idols, and burn incense in censers which are exactly the same as those unearthed in the ruins of the Ancient Mayan cities...
...knowledge of the civilizations which preceeded the Spanish advent in the new world is based on the inscriptions which we find on these monuments. We know very little about the details of the Mayan culture, because we cannot read the phonetics in hieroglyphics which have been left...
...Yucatan, where hot, silent bush spreads like a sea over leagues of country through which not even the Indians always know their way, two big parties searched out "lost" cities of the Mayan civilization to fill the, gap from 600 to 1000 A.D. in known Maya history. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann, famed Mayan authority, led his aides along a giant, 50-mile stone causeway from Chichen-Itza to the lost, lagoon-locked city of Coba, a march often made ceremonially by the Cobans into Chichen-Itza and finally as a migration by the Chichen-Itzans into Coba, probably...
...Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason, formerly on the editorial staff of the Outlook, cruised the Yucatan coast, putting ashore five times in six days to visit Mayan cities unknown to modern history-Xkaret, Paalmul. Chakalal, Actuo, Acomal. Four or five miles apart, 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...