Excerpt from American Anthropologist, Vol. 3So numerous, indeed, are these objects in certain localities that they are brought in with every load of gravel from the creek beds, and the laborer who sits by the way-side breaking bowlders for our streets each year passes them by thousands beneath his hammer and it is literally true that this city, the capital of a civilized nation, is paved with the art remains of a race who occupied its site in the Shadowy past, and whose identity until now has been wholly a matter of conjecture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.