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Title: The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations

Author: Zelia Nuttall

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Language: English

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The Fundamental Principles

Of

Old and New World Civilizations

A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious,
Sociological, and Calendrical Systems.

By

Zelia Nuttall

Honorary Special Assistant of the Peabody Museum; Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science; Member of the Philosophical
Society, Philadelphia; Honorary Member of the Archaeological Association,
Univ. of Pennsylvania; Corresponding Member of the Antiquarian and
Numismatic Society of Philadelphia; of the Anthropological Society of
Washington; of the Societa Italiana d'Antropologia; of the Societe de
Geographie de Geneve; of the Sociedad Cientifico "Antonio Alzate," Mexico;
and of the Societe des Americanistes de Paris.

Archaeological and Ethnological Papers

Of The

Peabody Museum

Harvard University

Vol. II.

Cambridge, Mass.

Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.

March, 1901.

CONTENTS

Editorial Note.
Author's Preface.
The Fundamental Principles Of Old And New World Civilizations.
Appendix I. Comparative Table of some Quechua, Nahuatl and Maya Words.
Appendix II. A Prayer-meeting of the Star-worshippers.
Appendix III. Comparative Lists of Words.
Index.
Note.
Footnotes

EDITORIAL NOTE.

The author of this volume explains in her preface how she came to be l