Note 1049 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Bancroft collates the views of different writers (iv. 285). He himself holds that these buildings are more ancient than those of Anáhuac; consequently he rejects the arguments of Stephens, that it was by the Toltecs, after they migrated south from Anáhuac, that these constructions were raised (Native Races, v. 165, and for references, p. 169). Charnay (Bull. de la Soc. de Géog., Nov., 1881) believes they were erected between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.