INDEX. 
Copan, Reviewing-stand in Western Court, 579 
Discussion, 321 
Copan, Shrine R’, discussion, 377 
Copan, Summary of monuments relating to 6 Caban 
10 Mol, 343 (see also 579) 
Summary of Stelz 4, C, F, and H, 358 
Copper bells, 34 
Cérdoba, Hernando de, 490 
Cornette, visit to Copan, 21 
Cornice, hieroglyphic, cases of, 276 
At Quirigua, 387 
Correlation of chronologies, probably assured within 49- 
day range, 505 
Basic evidence for, 466 
Historical bases for, 475 
Proposition by Morley, 467 
Sources for, 467 
Correlation schools, American, 529, et seq. 
French, 525 
German, 526 
Guatemalan, 525 
Cortés, Hernando, 549 
In Yucatan, 490 
Cotton, 3 
Criteria of archaism, 77 
Crops, 3 
Cruciform underground chambers, 177 
Under Mound 9, 121 
Under Stela 1, 161, 163 
Under Stela 3, 155 
Under Stela 7, 105 
Under Stela I, 177 
Under Stela M, 278 
Under Stela C, 346 
Other similar locations, 105 
Cultural connection with Old World unsupported, 224 
Cultural gap greater in Guatemalan history than in Yuca- 
tecan, 614 
Culture intrusions in other localities, 34 
Culture levels, 8 
Curassow, 5 
Current time-system grafted on elapsed time-system, 479, 
514 
Curve of civilization at Copan, 432 
Cutilca Cave, 600 
Cycle renewal in codices, 41 
Cycle 10, record of, 198 
No contemporaneous monument found recording, 438 
Cycle 11 dates, 250 
Cycle-sign, 83 
Daly, César, visit to Copan, 21 
Dardén, Juan Pérez, 16 
Date, anachronism of 13 Ahau 8 Xu! developed by the 
Oxkutzcab chronicle, 510 
Most important in Great Period, 429 
Date glyphs, percentage of, in inscriptions, 399 
Date, latest in southwestern Maya field, 438 
Date (see also Important dates) 
Date of dedication of monuments, necessarily selected in 
advance, 398 
Date, probable position of 13 Ahau 8 Kankin in Long 
Count, 510, 518 
Date, 6 Caban 10 Mol, a historical date, most important 
at Copan, 297 
Anniversary of, 336 
Date, starting-point of Maya chronological system (4 Ahau 
8 Cumhu) occurrence of, on monuments, 150 
Dates, decimal notation for Christian, 477 
Important group of, 344 


633 
Dates of Copan monuments, table, 587, et seq. 
Calculation of, 75 
Contemporaneous on monuments, 26, 27 
Decipherment of, 46 
In lower half of Hieroglyphic Stairway. probably 
relate to historical events of Early Period, 268 
Latest on one monument, is usually the contemporane- 
ous, 227 
Probable percentage of error in decipherment of, 415 
Dates, “prophetic,” 27, 197, 198, 333, 342 
Dating system, accuracy of, 2 
Day, basic unit of time count, 465 
Count (tonalamatl), inviolability of, 522 
Positions shifted after 1200 A. D., 478 
Day-sign, 83 
Day-signs at Copan, list of all, 589, et seq. 
Death god, 558 
Death’s-head characteristics in numerals, 172 
Glyph, 8r 
Decipherment, of Aztec glyphs, 41 
Maya date, 46 
Maya hieroglyphic writing, 28 
Means for, 75 
Probable percentage of error in, 415 
Decipherment, Maudslay’s contribution, 31 
Phonetic school, 30 
Decorated element, to avoid distortion, 203 
Deer, 4 
Deer hunts in Codex Tro-Cortesianus, 4 
Deities, presiding over periods, 559 
Delgado, Joseph, among Choles, 609 
Destruction of monuments and buildings due to tropical 
vegetation, 442 
Diaz, Padre Juan, with Grijalva, 519 
Different plaza levels in Acropolis at Copan, 425 
Diocese of Yucatan, 29 
Dolores, location of, 609 
Doves, 5 
Drawings, scale of, 524 
Difficulties in, 52 
Dresden Codex, 589 
Bowditch on contemporaneous date of, 519 
Férstemann on contemporaneous date of, 519 
List of lunar and solar eclipses, 556, 557 
Lunar and eclipse calculations, 555, 557, 558, 561, 563 
Meinshausen on, 556 
Moon-glyph in, 554 
Serpent numbers, 281 
Venus-solar periods in, 35, 150, 182, 527 
Year-bearers, 516, 517 
Dress, 5 
Drum-shaped altars, 110 
Earliest center of intensive occupation, 106 
At group 9, 122 
Earliest center of population, 123, 125 
Earliest certain contemporaneous texts in Old Empire, 411 
Earliest deciphered date at Copan, 78 
Earliest entry in Maya chronicles (9.0.0.0.0), 501 
Earliest Great Period cities, 438 
Earliest human form in front view, 97 
Earliest monuments at Copan, 55 
Stela 20, 77 
At Main Structure, 424 
Earliest stela at Copan, 60 
Early and late groups of dates on Hieroglyphic Stairway, 
stylistic difference between, 270 
Early Period at Copan (see Copan, Early Period) 
