Human history / by G. Elliot Smith.

  • Grafton Elliot Smith
Date:
1934
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Credit: Human history / by G. Elliot Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    invented the cipher. They make the even more astounding pre¬ tence that this imaginary achievement affords decisive evidence of the indigenous origin of American civilization. In view of the considerations, first, that the people of India had Fig. 66. - A sculptured representation of an Indian elephant at Copan in Central America (after Maudslay). This identification is not admitted by Maudslay, however. the cipher long before the Maya people, and secondly, that the earliest American culture displays the most obtrusive evidence of Hindu inspiration, the emphasis laid on the zero acquires a special significance as further corroboration of Artierica’s debt to India. In the writer’s book Elephants and Ethnologists (1924), the