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GREAT STONE MONUMENTS FEWKES 



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of which are erect uncut stones arranged in ring shape, while in the 

 enclosure thus formed are other upright stones that also show no 

 sign of tools. These sun-circles reminded Squier of megalithic 

 monuments of England and northern Europe, and in certain particu- 

 lars they recall to my mind the batey * or ball courts of the West 

 Indies, Mexico, and Central America. 



In the limited time available only a few of many megalithic struc- 

 tures in Peru can be instanced, the list might be much enlarged by 



Fig. 33. — Monolithic " gateway," Tiahuanaco, Peru, from Stiibel 



and Uhle. 



the addition of monolithic doorways and other examples, but these 

 suffice to show that the erection of megaliths attained a high develop- 

 ment in South as in Central America. A people where this power 

 was so highly developed naturally built stones of great size into their 

 temples and fortresses as that of Sacsahuaman, which Squier re- 

 garded the greatest specimen of cyclopean style in America. The 

 measurements of the size of the corner-stones of buildings at Cuzco, 

 or salient angles of the component stones of the trinchera-like walls 

 of this fortress are extraordinary ; one of the foundation stones is said, 

 by Squier, to be " 27 feet high, 14 broad, and 12 in thickness." 



1 Compare with Squier's cut of these sun-circles the ball court or batey 

 described by Schomburgk, in Santo Domingo, West Indies. 



