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...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, opens the list with an appearance on November 10. Dr. Spinden, a noted authority on the ancient Mayan civilization, will speak about his recent expedition to Yucatan and Honduras and illustrate his talk with motion picture slides of the region travercel. His experiences among the primitive Indians of Central America form a narrative of great interest...
...Mexico proper, a mixed band of diggers financed by J. L. Phillips of Georgia penetrated the wild interior of the State of Chiapas to Palenque, another extinct Mayan capital...
...expedition backed by the Mexican government and headed by Professors Enrique Palacios and Miguel Mendesabal of the National Museum reported finding also in wild Chiapas a Mayan city older even than Palenque, a city dating to 1000 B. C. Guards were posted to prevent avaricious Indians from plundering the ruins, as they invariably try to do in search of Montezuma's* treasure...
...Mexican savants found a still older city, Junchavin, near the Guatemalan border. Signs indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants had covered their spacious settlement with a blanket of masonry before evacuating. The inscriptions on monoliths and on a "million-year-old" stone were reported of unknown designs, surely pre-Mayan...
...Louisiana, Smithsonian Institution men reported traces of Mayan influence in pottery and ornaments taken from "kitchen middens" or mounds of clam shells, upon which doubtless lived prehistoric ancestors of the Chitimachan mound-dwellers observed there in the 17th century by Frenchmen...