INDEX 
Abandonment, climatic change suggested as cause of, 448 
Cook’s hypothesis, 452 
Earthquake hypothesis rejected, 443 
Huntington’s hypothesis, 448 
Latest cities to be affected, 444 
Of cities, progressive, 434 
Of Copan, period of, 23 
Of most Old Empire cities (prior to Cycle 10), 430 
Of region, gradual only, 442 
Achi, defined, 611 
Acropolis, growth by accretion, 7, 11 
Date of, 9 
Height of, 425 
Rapidity of completion, 426 
Vertical cross-section, 211 
View from, II 
Adams, Percy, 27 
Addition and multiplication, different positions of numeral 
modifier in each, 312 
Agouti, 4 
Agricultural collapse most probable cause of end of Old 
Empire civilization, 462 
Agriculture, Cook on, 454 
Debilitation of soil from successive burnings, 454 
Development in archaic period, 410 
Factor in development of civilization, 414 
Maya method of, 453 
Aguacate, 3 
Aguas Calientes, 333, 433, 438, 441, 459 
Stela 1, 135, 572, 585, 589 
Aguilar, Garcia de, 544 
Aguilar, Gerénimo de, 476 
Aguilar, Sanchez de, quoted, 42 
Ahau-sign, as infix to Imix, 230 
Inverted, used as glyph for kin or day, 589 
Occurs 104 times out of 158 day-signs at Copan, 589 
Unusual element in, 380. 
Ahpulha, meaning of word, 509. 
Napot Xiu (see Xiu, Napot) 
Ah-tz’un, meaning of, 479, 509 
Ahuitzotl, death of, 37 
Ah-ziyah, meaning of, 479 
Akbal, not found as day-sign at Copan, 589 
One of year-bearers, in New Empire and Codices, 
516, 518 
Alford, 8 
Allen, 8 
Alphabet, general for all Mayance tongues, 611 
Altar de Sacrificios, 391, 433, 43 441, 459 
Abandonment of, 456 
Forms one site with El Pabellon, 571 
Stela 4, 571, 583 
Stela 5, 583 
Stela 7, 571, 584 
Altar types, chronological sequence of, 395 
Altars, associated, at times with hotun-markers, 214 
Drum-shaped, 110 
Of Early Period, description of, 395 
Subordinate to stele, 127 
Truncated cone, 377 
Amalin, Pedro, 17 


Analtehes, Maya codices, 42, 43 
Ancona, History of Yucatan, 526 
Annals of Quauhtitlan, 42 
Anniversary of 6 Caban 10 Mol, 336 
Anona, 3 
Ant-eater, 4 
Apay language, 605, 606 
Archaic culture, 422 
Earlier origin of, 422 
Vaster extension of, 422 
Archaic horizon, in Middle America, 409 
Archaic stelz, characteristics of altars of, 62 
Anthropomorphic figures, 422 
Classification of, 125 
Sculptures under Altars X and Y, 208 
Archaisms, at Tikal, 54, 76 
At Uaxactun, on Leyden Plate, on Tuxtla Statuette, 76 
Architectural achievement, zenith of, 315 
Arnold, quoted, 224 
Artistic considerations, coercive influence of, 170 
In glyph cutting, 265 
Astronomical elements (in Stel 10 and 12), 133, 134, 143 
Data, probably recorded here, 134 
Astronomical phenomena, 33, 465 
Athens of the New World, 431 
Atlatl, Nahuatl weapon, 574 
Aubin Codex (1576), 38, 41 
Autochthonous origin of civilizaticn doubtful, 406 
Aztec calendar, 36 
Codices, 36, et seq. 
Glyphs, decipherment of, 41 
Place names, 36 
Time-count grafted on Maya count, 479, 514 
Babylonian lunar calendar, parallel with Maya Supple- 
mentary series, 554 
Bacalar or Bakhalal, 457, 502 
Brinton on etymology, 457 
Balam Quiché, present fixed Quiché history begins with, 
about 12th century, 614 
United Chiquimula to Utatlan, €05 
Ball Court a purely Nahuan institution, 514 
Only two in Yucatan, 514 
Bancroft, H. H., references to Copan, 21 
Baraona, Sancho de, 16 
Baskets, 4 
Bat glyph, 45 
Beans, 3 
Benque Viejo, 433, 438, 441, 444) 458 
Abandonment of, 457 
Stela 1, 278, 528, 572, 586 
Berendt, Chol word: list, 610 
Copies Stephens’s erroneous Chorti word-list, 607 
Beverages, 3 
Bezerra, Bartolomé, 16 
Biologia Centrali-Americana, publication of, 22 
Birds, 5 
Bissextile shift in Maya New Year, 486 
Bogran, 24 
Bonilla, Policarpo, on Galindo, 603 
Borbonicus Codex, 559 
Boturini Codex, 41 
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