Excerpt from American Anthropologist, Vol. 3 So 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.