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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 4, Antiquities

by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 4

About 16 h 27 min of reading14 chapters

This fourth volume of Hubert Howe Bancroft's The Native Races of the Pacific States is devoted to antiquities, the ruins and artifacts left by the ancient peoples of western North and Central America. After an introduction on the value and pitfalls of monumental archaeology, Bancroft moves region by region from the Isthmus, Costa Rica and Nicaragua to Copán in Honduras, Guatemala, the cities of Yucatán, Palenque in Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz and the central plateau of Mexico, then north to Arizona and New Mexico and the Northwest, with chapters on the mound builders and on Peru. The text is compiled from explorers' reports in the San Francisco publisher's great library. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.

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