Word: pre-columbian
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...Mitchell lays about him with such infectious vigor that one almost forgets that other archeologists who are interested in the cultures of pre-Columbian America are still agnostic about the origins of the Inca, Aztec and Maya Indian civilizations. And if one looks at a map of the world, one is struck by the vast distances between outposts of Polynesia and America, between Easter Island and Chile, between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico. Could Polynesians or Chinese, in their small boats or canoes, have traversed such forbidding stretches of water to bring a god of Egyptian origin to Yucatan...
...been for the skill of the Paya Indians in navigating the tremendous rapids, it is doubtful whether I could have reached the interior," contained Mr. Spinden. "Although they are an extremely primitive people, dating back to pre-Columbian times, the Payas are boat-men of great daring and endurance, who drive forward in the face of the most tumultuous streams. I was alone with these natives during the course of my trip and found them a very interesting people, more humanly attractive than the comparatively civilized Maya Indians of Yucatan...
...these pictures really are of the ibex, scientists think that they will have proof of a pre-Columbian visit of Asiatics to the Pacific coast. Such a visit to the Pacific coast, comparable to the ancient landing of Lief Ericsen on the Atlantic coast, is considered by no means impossible, it has been pointed out. Other possible evidence of the presence of Asiatics on the western coast is the story of a complete Chinese junk, found buried in the gravel of a stream by early Californian settlers...
These ruins have excited great interest from being the most remarkable architectural remains of pre-Columbian time in America. In recent years Dr. Tozzer, as well as other archeologists, has given much time to exploration and study of the ruins, and of the state of civilization they record. The Peabody Museum possesses large collections from Yucatan, and many models or the ruins found there as well as numerous photographs will be shown by Dr. Tozzer. The present inhabitants of Yucatan, the Lacondones, a tribe which Dr. Tozzer has studied with particular care, have sadly deteriorated since they produced such wonderful...
...Congress when in session at New York had representatives of twenty nationalities sent by various governments and archaeological institutions. The object of the delegates is the study of the American ethnological conditions of the fifteenth century and also of the pre-Columbian epoch...