Archælig;ology of the Middle Americas ¹

Abstract

THE work before us is the third volume of a series devoted to the archaeology of the Latin Americas, in which the author contrives to give a general account of this enormous field, mainly based upon a widely scattered and not always easily accessible literature, from the earliest Spanish chronists to the present plethora of Americanists. There are few readable works which take a wider and more scientific view of the main questions, whilst the flood of the more professional publications deals with smaller areas and often intensely with abstruse detail of one or other of the numerous problems.