Round Structures of Aboriginal Middle America

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Author: Pollock, Harry Evelyn Dorr (1900-1982) from the libraries of R Gwinn Vivian and France Vinton Scholes Year: 1936 Publisher: Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) Place: Washington, DC Description: viii+182 pages with map, diagrams, tables, photographs, drawings, figures and illustrations. Quarto (11 1/2" x 9") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the libraries of R Gwinn Vivian and France V Scholes . Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication number 471. First edition. The present paper is the attempt to gather together and so far as possible to analyze the available information on a form of architecture that is consider relatively rare in the region under consideration. The study is an outgrowth of work in connection with two round buildings at the ruins of Chichen Itza in Yucatan, so that it will aid in the understanding of these structures as well as other buildings of a similar type. Vivian is a former Curator of Archaeology at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson. He has carried out research in Chaco Canyon for more than forty years. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona. France Vinton Scholes (1897–1979) was an American scholar and historian noted for his research on the history of New Spain, especially Spanish Yucatan and Southwestern United States. Much of his research was conducted in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, where he

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