Note 1000 — Chapter III

Viollet le Duc, in his Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques (Paris, 1875), has given a chapter (no. xxii.) to the “Nahuas and Toltecs.” Views more or less studied, comprehensive, and restricted are given in R. Cary Long’s Ancient Architecture of America, its historic value and parallelism of development with the architecture of the Old World (N. Y. 1849), an address from the N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc. 1849, p. 117; R. P. Greg on “the Fret or Key Ornament in Mexico and Peru,” in the Archæologia (London), vol. xlvii. 157; and a popular summary on “the pyramid in America,” by S. D. Peet, in the American Antiquarian, July, 1888, comparing the mounds of Cholula, Uxmal, Palenqué, Teotihuacan, Copan, Quemada, Cohokia, St. Louis, etc. John T. Short summarizes the characteristics of the Nahua and Maya styles (No. Amer. of Antiquity, 340, 359). There are chapters on their architecture in Bancroft, Nat. Races, ii.; but the references in his vol. iv. are most helpful.