John D. Baldwin

PREFACE.

CONTENTS. Page I. ANCIENT AMERICA. THE MOUND-BUILDERS 13 Works

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page 1 Gateway at Labna Frontispiece. 2

ANCIENT AMERICA.

I. THE MOUND-BUILDERS.

II. ANTIQUITY OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS.

III. WHO WERE THE MOUND-BUILDERS?

IV. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

V. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

VI. ANTIQUITY OF THE RUINS.

VII. WHENCE CAME THAT OLD CIVILIZATION?

VIII. AMERICAN ANCIENT HISTORY.

IX. THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION.

X. ANCIENT PERU.

XI. PERUVIAN ANCIENT HISTORY.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX. A. THE NORTHMEN IN AMERICA.

GENERAL INDEX.

Transcriber’s Note

A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book.

ANCIENT AMERICA,
IN
NOTES ON AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY.

By JOHN D. BALDWIN, A.M.,
AUTHOR OF “PRE-HISTORIC NATIONS.”

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
John D. Baldwin,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.