The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 4, Antiquities / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 4

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume IV, by Hubert Howe Bancroft
THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT.
VOLUME IV.
SAN FRANCISCO: A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. 1883.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1882, by HUBERT H. BANCROFT. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
All Rights Reserved.

NATIVE RACES of the PACIFIC STATES showing the location of ANCIENT MONUMENTS

THE NATIVE RACES OF THE PACIFIC STATES.
ANTIQUITIES.
Monumental Archæology—Scope of the Volume—Treatment of the Subject—Sources of Information—Tangibility of Material Relics—Vagueness of Traditional and Written Archæology—Value of Monumental Relics, as conveying Positive Information respecting their Builders, as Corroborative or Corrective Witnesses, as Incentives to Research—Counterfeit Antiquities—Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian monuments—Relics proving the Antiquity of Man—Exploration of American Ruins—Key to Central American Hieroglyphics—No more Unwritten History.