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A DISPATCH from Mexico City addressed to Science Service, Washington, announces that Senor Alfonso Caso, who is in charge of the exploration of the ruins on Monte Alban, Oaxaca, proposes in the coming season to open up the great “South Terrace” of the acropolis, which is regarded as in all probability the most important part of the site. It has been left unexplored up to the present in order that the work may be carried out in the light of experience on the site. The acropolis is a tableland on top of the mountain, approximately a third of a mile long. The “North Platform"was explored last year. The “South Terrace”, judging by the contours under the earth covering it, should be richer in remains than any part explored up to the present. Mounds superimposed upon mounds make this the highest point on Monte Alban. At the south-east corner is a mound with a hollow rotunda, which the late Mrs. Zelia Nuttall held, to be an astronomical observatory, and considered the most important monument in Mexico in view of its relation to the calendar cultures of America.
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Archæological Exploration on Monte Alban, Mexico. Nature 132, 542 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132542b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132542b0