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36.0. Yucatán 565 an extensive search of all church records in the Xiu region for items concerning the Xius; it is felt that when he has completed his examination of the 250-odd notarial books in Mérida, practically all known sources for Xiu material will have been exhausted. Dr. Morley also excavated a mound near the town of Oxkutzcab, for the purpose of locating, if possible, the site of the church of the former Maya village of San Juan Bautista Yaxacumche, where the Xiu family lived during the Colonial Period. The mound lay about 50 m east of an old Spanish well, still known by the name of San Juan; and this fact, together with its location on what had been the east side of a plaza, the proper position for a Roman Catholic church, indicated that it might be the remains of the former church of San Juan BautistaYaxacumche. The excavations disclosed a foundation mound some 40 m long, 30 m wide and 2 m high, its longitudinal axis east and west, its east, north and west sides facedwith,fourcoursesofmasonryarrangedinretreating steps, like the narrow-treads of a steep stairway; T H E C A R N E G I E M A Y A 36.1. ALFRED V. KIDDER Archaeological Work in Yucatán YB 34:123–126, 1935 As was stated in the last Year Book report [Chapters 1.22 and 1.23], the 10 years of intensive excavation at Chichén Itzá are being followed by an interval for the publication of those units of work which have not yet been treated monographically; and for research upon certain problems raised by the Chichén Itzá diggings which can not be solved save on the basis of investigation elsewhere in the peninsula. The Institution’s headquartersatChich énItzáhave,however,beenkeptopen to serve as a base for the field-workers. Dr. Morley was, as usual, in residence. He devoted his time to preparation of his compendious report upon the inscriptions of the Petén, and to further studies, in collaboration with Mr. Roys and Sr. Rubio Mañé, upon the history of the Xiu family, former rulers of the city of Uxmal. Several conferences were held at Chichén Itzá during the spring, when new material gathered by Messrs. Roys and Rubio Mañé was compared, collated and combined with data collected in previous years, and many gaps in the story of this most interesting and ancient family were filled. Sr. Rubio Mañé made 566 YUCATÁN these treads were about 15 cm wide. On the south side they are so much wider (1.5 m) that it would seem the mound originally faced in this direction. Traces of a plaster floor could be distinguished here and there about 30 cm above the top of the fourth course of masonry on the east, north and west sides. There was so little debris above this floor level and what there was contained so few stones, being composed mostly of earth and lime plaster residue, that it wasevidenttherehadneverbeenamasonrysuperstructure . On the other hand there was sufficient debris to indicateaformersuperstructureofsaplingsandthatch, its walls perhaps daubed with mud or lime plaster. The excavations yielded a considerable quantity of potsherds, but no whole or even restorable pieces. These were examined by Mr. H. B. Roberts, who reports that 80 percent are of common wares, which throughout the prehistoric and historic periods show no marked change and are therefore of little value for chronologic determinations. The remaining 20 percent were of a type unknown to him, though he felt that they might be allied to the wares of the Puuc region. The excavations established that this mound was not the remains of a Roman Catholic church, but whetheritdatesfrombeforeoraftertheConquestcould not be settled by the evidence at hand. When the significant 20 percent of the ceramic remains shall have been identified, its chronologic position will be clearer. THE ARCHITECTURALSURVEY The purposes of the Architectural Survey have been outlined in earlier reports [Chapters 2.1 and 2.2]. It was there pointed out that the architecture of the Maya was a highly important part of that culture and as such might be expected to reflect the growth, development and general course of Maya civilization. In its broader aspects, then, the Architectural Survey is to be regarded as a step toward the reconstruction of Maya history. More specifically, its aims are the determination of cultural and ethnic movements and the establishment of time sequences as reflected in architecture. At the...

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