KEMAEKS BY DOCTOR SCHELLHAS » 



The discoveries of Mr E. P. Dieseldorff show in the forms of the 

 pictorial representations and of the glyphic characters the greatest 

 resenibhmce to the antiquities of Palenque. They evidently belong- to 

 a common cultural region and cultural group; to the same group, 

 indeed, to which the Maya manuscripts, and especially the Dresden 

 and Peresian codices, belong. On the otiier hand, they show the same 

 deviations from the antiquities of Yucatan proper as do the manu- 

 scripts and the antiquities of Palenque and also those of Copan. 

 Aztec accordances and influences, such as exist in northern Yucatan, 

 seem to be wanting. Mr Dieseldorif's discoveries (especially the 

 present one and the one published in the Verhandlungen der Berliner 

 Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic, 1893, page 547 and following) con- 

 firm the theory already set forth by me in Internationales Archiv fiir 

 Ethnographic, volume 3, 1890, at the end of the paper entitled 

 " Vergleichende Studien aus dem Felde der Maya Alterthiimer ", that 

 the Maya manuscripts originated in a region to the south of the pen- 

 insula of Yucatan and that we must seek in that region, that is. in tlie 

 interior of Chiapas and Guatemala, for the primal seat and origin 

 of the ancient civilization of Central America, whose more highly 

 artistic and more realistic forms appear in Yucatan proper to be 

 already blended with and influenced by the more rigid, conventional 

 types of Mexican art and mode of representation. 



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