Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . d sacred fire, all reached byexterior staircases up the slope of the structure. The State of Oaxaca—and part of the adjoining Stateof Guerrero—is remarkable for the numerous ruins ofprehistoric inhabitants scattered upon its ridges andmountain crests. Terraces, pyramids, and walls crownthe summits and extend down the slopes, actuallyclashing in some cases with the natural profiles of thehills, and causing the natural and artificial to minglein a
Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . d sacred fire, all reached byexterior staircases up the slope of the structure. The State of Oaxaca—and part of the adjoining Stateof Guerrero—is remarkable for the numerous ruins ofprehistoric inhabitants scattered upon its ridges andmountain crests. Terraces, pyramids, and walls crownthe summits and extend down the slopes, actuallyclashing in some cases with the natural profiles of thehills, and causing the natural and artificial to minglein a strange, and at first glance, scarcely distinguishableblend. These numerous ruins, and the small cultivatedterraced patches on the almost inaccessible hill slopes,bring to mind the similar constructions of the old ruinsand the singular andenes of the Andes of Peru.^They point to a busy and numerous population informer times, and in some cases the topography ofwhole mountain slopes has been remodelled by thehand of prehistoric man. No place was too inacces-sible, and terrace and temple crown the Andine See my book, The Andes and the
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