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through the greater part of the existence of the Miocene sea. One 

 specimen is a very perfect skull evidently unlike anything heretofore 

 known from North America. Unfortunately it contained no teeth, 

 but teeth presumably belonging to the species were also collected. 

 Many other vertebrae were found representing known species as well 

 as others apparently new. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN GUATEMALA 

 Early in January, 1914, arrangements were made whereby Mr. 

 Neil M. Judd of the National Museum was enabled to accept an 



Fig. 48.— A view among the ruins of Utatlan, the last capital of the Quiche 



empire. 



invitation to participate in the third season's archeological investiga- 

 tions at Quirigua, Guatemala, conducted under the direction of Dr. 

 Edgar L. Hewett by the School of American Archaeology. Accounts 

 of the earlier investigations have been published by the Archaeological 

 Institute of America. 1 



Plans for the expedition of 1914 included a continuation of former 

 excavations upon the prehistoric temples and pyramids surrounding 

 the so-called " Temple Court," the religious center of the sacred city 

 of Quirigua, and the reproduction, in plaster, of several of the huge 

 stone monuments which have made these ruins world-famous. Mr. 



bulletins: Vol. 2, pp. 117-134 (19"), and Vol. 3, pp. 163-171 (1912). 



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