The Prehistoric World: Or, Vanished RacesCentral publishing house, 1885 - 820 pàgines |
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America ancient animals antiquity Archæological Bancroft's Native Races Bandelier beds bones Britain Bronze Bronze Age buildings burial mounds cañon Cave-men caves Cholula civilization climate conclusions copper culture Dawkins Dawkins's Early deposits discovered discoveries earth Eocene epoch evidence existence explorers fact feet high flint France Geikie's Prehistoric Europe gens geological geologists Glacial Age glaciers gravel height hill houses human hundred feet implements inclosures Indians inhabited Kent's Cavern known lake land living Lubbock's Prehistoric Maya ments Mexicans Mexico miles Miocene Mound Builders mountains Nahua Neolithic Northern notice ornaments Palenque Paleolithic Age Paleozoic period phratry Pliocene portion pottery present probably Prof pueblo pyramid reindeer relics remains represents River Drift rock rude ruins savage scholars seen side species stalagmite stone suppose surface temple terrace thousand tion traces tribes Uxmal valley vegetation villages walls Yucatan
Passatges populars
Pàgina 579 - He was then young, and with much labour climbed to the naked summit of the sierra, from which, at a height of ten or twelve thousand feet, he looked over an immense plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over a great space, and with turrets white and glittering in the sun.
Pàgina 18 - THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain. And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Pàgina 408 - ... they have not yet got the art of glazing, which would be to them a most valuable secret. They make them so strong and serviceable, however, that they hang them over the fire as we do our iron pots, and boil their meat in them with perfect success. I have seen some few specimens of such manufacture, which have been dug up in Indian mounds and tombs in the southern and middle states, placed in our Eastern Museums and looked upon as a great wonder, when here this novelty is at once done away with,...
Pàgina 329 - I crossed the Mississippi at St. Louis, and after passing through the wood which borders the river, about half a mile in width, entered an extensive open plain. In fifteen minutes, I found myself in the midst of a group of mounds, mostly of a circular shape, and at a distance, resembling enormous haystacks scattered through a meadow. One of the largest which I ascended, was about two hundred paces in circumference at the bottom, the form nearly square, though it had evidently undergone considerable...
Pàgina 433 - Each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in which we suppose are the springs that furnish the supply to the reservoirs. The exterior walls, which are of stone, have no openings, and would have to be scaled or battered down before access could be gained to the interior. The successive stories are set back, one behind the other. The lower rooms are reached through trap-doors from the first landing. The houses are three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court.
Pàgina 426 - Governor and Captain General of the provinces of New Mexico, for our Lord, the King, passed by this place on his return from the pueblo of Zuni, on the 29th of July, of the year 1620, and put them in peace at their petition, asking the favor to become subjects of His Majesty ; and anew they gave obedience. All which they did with free consent, knowing it prudent, as well as very Christian. "To so distinguished and gallant a soldier, indomitable and famed, we love...
Pàgina 204 - Ganggraben' are a copy, a development, or an adaptation, of the dwelling-house ; that the ancient inhabitants of Scandinavia, unable to imagine a future altogether different from the present, or a world quite unlike our own, showed their respect and affection for the dead by burying with them those things which in life they had valued most; with ladies their ornaments, with warriors their weapons.
Pàgina 629 - ... ornaments is not less peculiar and striking than the general effect. There were no tablets or single stones, each representing separately and by itself an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones on each of which part of the subject was carved, and which was then set in its place in the wall.
Pàgina 462 - It was such a victory as they could not afford to gain again, and they were glad when the long fight was over to follow their wives and little ones to the South. There, in the deserts of Arizona, on well-nigh unapproachable isolated bluffs, they built new towns, and their few descendants, the Moquis, live in them to this day, preserving more carefully and purely the history and veneration of their forefathers than their skill or wisdom.
Pàgina 455 - My first impression was that this peculiarly-constructed door-way was a precaution against enemies,, and that it was probably the only means of entrance to the interior of the house ; but I am now inclined to think this hardly probable, and conclude that it was rather designed to render a sacred chamber as free as possible from profane intrusion.
Referències a aquest llibre
A Dictionary of Symbols Juan Eduardo Cirlot,Juan Eduardo C. Cirlot Previsualització no disponible - 1983 |