516 ARCHEOLOGY 



The maps of Xolotzin, Tlotzin, and Quinatzin complete the history 

 of the Texcocans, being of a most interesting character, inasmuch 

 as they graphically describe the troglodyte life of the Chichimecs. 

 In the Dehesa Codex we have presented to us the journey and con- 

 quests of the Zapotecans, while the Porfirio Diaz furnishes us with 

 their campaigns against the Cuicatecans. And there are yet many 

 other paintings which supply us with valuable information for our 

 history. 



The inscriptions or reliefs in stone, almost as yet undeveloped 

 by man's study, have contributed in no small degree towards this 

 end. It will suffice our purpose to mention the Stone of Famine 

 and the Cuauhxicalli of Tizoc, both in the hall of monoliths of the 

 National Museum of Mexico. The former has indisputably fixed the 

 dates of that calamity, which was on the point of exterminating 

 the ancient Aztec race. The latter has corrected erroneous tradi- 

 tions about King Tizoc, presenting us with the series of his vic- 

 tories and conquests. 



In this way will archeological studies, especially when the ex- 

 plorations in our ruins and monuments can be conducted on a truly 

 scientific basis, complete and correct our ancient history, of no less 

 interest and instruction than those of the primitive peoples of the 

 East, whose investigation is now so rightly the subject of scientific 

 research. 



But if archeology is a great aid in the study of history, anthropo- 

 logy, the science of man, is all the more so. Man has ever striven 

 to learn all that surrounds him, fathoming the mysteries from 

 pole to pole. With gaze steadily fixed on the firmament, he has 

 endeavored to learn how the sun and the moon move; later to 

 ascertain the courses of the planets; then the laws governing the 

 motions of the heavenly bodies, from the Milky Way to the tiniest 

 star. He has dared to force his way into the bowels of the earth, 

 to rob from her her treasures; he has studied her marvelous form- 

 ation; he has traversed her aged forests; has classified her fauna 

 and her flora; he has plowed through her lakes, her rivers, and 

 her seas, making himself the lord and master of the whole world: in 

 a word, man has, in that small cavity of his brain, imprisoned the 

 immense universe. 



There yet remained for him to study the grandest and noblest; 

 man furnishing a subject of study for man. He has ever regarded 

 himself as the most worthy, most perfect, and most sublime creature 

 of creation, or, in the words of the Bible: "God made man in his own 

 image and likeness." To make man in the likeness of God is to 

 deify him. 



When the primitive peoples, after worshiping animals, passed 

 from this zoolatry to the worship of trees, and later to that of the 



