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...Fairfax, Mo., Frank Plumb, anthropologist, unearthed a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches with a low, slanting skull that suggested the Mayan custom of flattening infants' heads; with a pear-shaped stone inside it such as the Mayans put in the mouths of their dead; with a bit of pottery nearby and a translucent stone carved with a Mayan figure...
...Mayas. The growing importance which archaeology and thnology occupy in the estimation of he general public today Dr. Spinden attributes in large part to the wider sympathy between nations and their appreciation of the civilization of other aces and other times than their own. The Peabody Museum began its Mayan research in the eighteen eighties and has pursued the work so constantly that Harvard now has enviable archaeological possessions and facilities for study in this field...
...Yucatan, Edward H. Thompson of the Peabody Museum (Boston), to whom is credited introduction* of the Mayan civilization to modern archeology, rounded out 20 years of work with an extraordinary feat and returned home. He knew that the Mayans practiced a sacrificial ceremony at their sacred wells, in their holy city, decking virgins with jade and gold and hurling them, amid clouds of incense, into great limestone sinkholes, one of which measured 168 feet across and contained 80 feet of water and mud. After digging around for years, with indifferent luck, Professor Thompson went back to Boston and acquired...
...Yucatan, work has been given up until after the rainy season in uncovering the great Mayan City of Chichenitza. A great mosaic floor, several reservoirs lined with stone, and the "court of the thousand columns" were partly cleared, but work is to be continued for perhaps ten years more...
Central America. The earliest dates in New World history were definitely determined and the chronology of the Mayan calendar solved by Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard. The historical first day of the Mayas was Aug. 6,613 B. C. (by our calendar), from which point a numerical record of elapsed days was kept and astronomical events were recorded accurately. On Dec. 10,580 B. C., the perfected calendar was formally inaugurated and functioned without loss of a single day until the Mayan records were destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition in Yucatan, in 1561 A. D. These...