Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-06-09


papers now pu blished would net interest
the public. But it is quite remarkable
that most of the skulls found at Los
Muertos and Cibola exhibit the peculiar
bone which from its frequent occur
ence in Peruvian skulls has been
called the Inca bone. 1t is a small
triangular inter-parietal bone which is
found In the back OF the head; it is
hardly ever witnessed in European
skulls, and inoeed is peculiar to these
skulls found in Arizona and to the
skulls of the ancient Peruvians. 1t is
the opinion OF ANTAGONISTS that it could
not have been produced by artificial
pressure. The inhabitants of Cibola
appear to have been "born So" Another
differences in their skeletons from the
skeletons OF other Indians is that the
upper arm bones of the females are
often perforated, while no perforatlons
are found in the arm bones of adult
males or of Infants. The hoe was
either made by design or was the &C.
cidental consequence of the pursuits
the women followed.
Summing up the result of their studies |
of these bones the PSYCHOLOGISTS at Wash |
iugton have come to the conclusion
that the race OF which these skeletons
are relics lived at least 20C0 years ago;
that they we're of people of slight
physique, low stature and small cranial
cavity, and that they were akin to the
ancient PeruviGns, whose defendants
we're ruled by the Incas Pursuing
tb cir deductions the scientists go on to
affirm, at least conjecturally, that at the |
time these skeletons were laid in the
grave the race to which they belonged
was on the decline. Space forbids
recapitulation of the data on which this
conclusion is reached. Those who are
curious on the subject can find the
arguments in the volume which has
been issued by the government printing
office.
The theory is that at some extremely |
remote period of prehistoric antiquity
race which was distinguished by the
Inca bone on the back of the head occu-
pied the southern portion of the CONT
nent from the Colorado river down, and |
that in the course of centuries or cycles |
they were reduced by wars and pest. /
lencss until they were driven into a few
valleys in Arizona and the strip of habi-
table land in South America between
the Andes and the sea, where they grad
ually persisted. This theory derives
FEASIBILITY from the unnaturalness of
the modern bypotheses regarding the
antiquity of the Aztecs, Toltecs and the
Central American palace builders. His
tori8ns would have US believe that the
latter only date from the ninth or tenth
century of our era, the Aztecs from the
thirteenth and the Toltecs from two or
three centuries before that-in other
words, that the races which hourished
in the tropical and semi-tropical portions
OF the northern continent were not much
older than the crusades. The reasons
for this opinion are summarized in the
report of the Lorillard expedition to
Central America. 1t has been impossi-
BILE to contradict them. But it has al
ways seemed strange that region which
was so sbundantly capable of sustain
ing life should not have given birth 20
powerful nations until a period " oicb
was only the other day. For the ,usande
of years before the date assig- ned to t, -
Aztec invasion of Mexico a high civ III
cation prevailed in Asia, southern En-.
rope and parts OF Africa. We do not
find traces of it in northern Europe
but that can be explained by the ardu-
Gus condition of life in that cold and
wooded region. But why should not
more genial conditions ", the central
portion Of this eontinent. have led to the
same results which t'ney produced on
tie shores of the Mediterranean, in
Mesopotam.ls, Indu. and China?-San
t'rRnclssco Call.