Word: mayans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert J. Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has just returned from a three months' expedition in the Yucatan. With Mr. Gregory Mason. Dr. Spinden explored mush of the territory which was previously unknown to archaeologists, in an attempt to get nearer the long sought solution of the Mayan riddle...
...CITY OF THE SACRED WELL -T. A. Willard-Century ($4). Here is the story, told by an intimate friend, of Edward Herbert Thompson - "Don Eduardo", as they call him in Yucatan-to whom is credited the bulk of modern archeological knowledge of the great Mayan civilizations. Reading explorers' books as a boy in snug New England, he connected himself with the Peabody Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, which obtained him the first U. S. consulship in Yucatan and opportunity to devote most of his life to baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting...
...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...