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ON THE AGE OF MAYA RUINS
BY
CHARLES P. BOWDITCH
(From the American Anthropologist (N. S.), Vol. 3, October-December, 1901)
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1901
ON THE AGE OF MAYA RUINS
By CHARLES P. BOWDITCH
The inscription lately discovered in Chichen Itza by Edward H. Thompson, United States Consul at Merida, is of more than passing interest. It contains an Initial Series of glyphs, which, so far as I know, gives the only initial date that has been found in the northern part of Yucatan.
Although it may be a matter of doubt on what date the long count declared by the Initial Series began, yet, if we assume that