Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-15
PREHISTORIC AMERICA.
The Subjects to be Discussed at the
Americanist Congress at Madrid.

tne subjects 10 be Discussed at the
Americanist Congress at Madrid.
The Spanish minister at Washington
announces that during the coming
congress of the students of American
antiquities at Madrid there will be an
exhibition at that city of American an
tiquities. He also gives the following
programme Of the subjects to be dis
cussed:
"The comparison of the three king
doms Of Cuzec, Druills and ONTO.
which formed the empire of the Incas
at the time of the conquest. The diff
ference which their religion, legisla-
ton, language, architecture, customs.
ETC., presented. The nationalities
which existed in central America be-
fore the invasion of the Aztecs and
other northern people, and the forma-
non OF the Mexican empire. The
emigration of the people of Chibeha.
their relations with Mexico and Peru.
Music and dancing among the indigen-
Gus Americans. The military con-
dition of the empire of Mexico and
Peru before the discovery and con-
quest OF the new world, and compare
son thereof with the other ancient
races. The expedition before the time
of Columbus of the Bizcaycans to New.
foundland and the neighborine coast
countries. Whether the voyage of
Juan de Fuca and Lorenzo Ferrer
Maldonado are apocryphal. The in
lluence of the missionaries in spread.
ing Knowledge of American geography.
Geological proofs Of the beissenee of
the Atlantis (of PLUTO, its fauna and
its flora. Progress of American car
Biography. What have been the changes
and other effects caused by the infiu-
ence of the PlutOnic forces of the
globe, or by other natural causes in the
position, course, and flow of the water
of the interior of America in order to
study the question not only from its
historical, geographical, and climate
logical point of view, but also in view
of the interest which it has for the
present populations of America in the
sense of their development, well-being,
and civilization. Whether it can be
ascertained from history and from the
study of geological phenomena at
present found in the Island of Cuba,
that the latter was united or not to the
continent of America before its discov-
cry by Columbus. The American pre-
historic archaeology. The emblematic
and religious value of the diverse
types Of idols, efiigies, and images which
are found in the Peruvian tombs. In
vestigations concerning the "Usnus,"
"Xavhuas," "Gayanas" and other an
alogous mementoes containing images
signs or inscriptions, whether from the
archaeological investigations which
have taken place in our day in the
island of Cuba, and from the general
types of some of the idols found there
in, 1T may be inferred that these idols
must have belonged to other indigen.
Gus Cubans than those which Column
bus found on the island. Prehistoric
anthropology. The names of the prin
cipal contagious diseases which have
been reciprocally communicated by thu
people of the old and new worlds, tn,
nomenclature of the races and tribe:
of America before the conquest, and al
ethnographical chart of the TERRITORY
occupied by each one of them. Wheth
er there existed photographic affinity
between the races of America anc
Oceanic.
"The QuippOs considered especially
in their relations to the ancient system!
of writing and the possibility of trans
lation. Whether it is possible to reacl
a practical knowledge of the organiza
ton and construction of the indigenous
languages by means of the post-Latir
dialects with which they have beer
compared by the European philologist.
and investigators. The photograph,
of the vocabularies, grammars anC
dictionaries of the American Ian
guage."