Were the Indians who built the mysterious mounds of the great interior valley of our country kinsmen to the Mayas of Yucatan and the other highly cultured peoples of the Mexican plateau?
Are the decidedly Maya- and Aztec-like sculptures taken from mounds in the Southeast really witnesses to an evolution from the same racial stock and an inheritance of the same art traditions, rather than just evidences of an ancient commerce with the countries across the Gulf of Mexico?
Dr.
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