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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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r than used. Thecarving which had embellished the sidewalls of the platform, as at Uaxactun,was transferred to the temple, leaving thesubstructure bare. To receive this decora-tion a masonry block was built on the roof,but the weight of this mass necessitatedextremely thick walls to support it. Fur-thermore, the Maya used a corbel or falsearch, incapable of bearing a heavy weight.As a result we find massive buildings withrooms only two or three feet wide. In time the Mayalearned how to lightenthe burden of the roof-comb by rearing a narrowperforated wall directlyabove the partition wallsof the temple. By so do-ing, no weight fell direct-ly on the arch of the roof,and it became possible to TEMPLE AT RIO BEC.QUINTAN A ROOThis Maya temple shows thetransition from a religiousmonument to a shrine withusable rooms. The towers areconventionalized reproduc-tions of the Tikal type oftemple (p. 22), while thebuilding proper is not unlikethe Yucatan structures shownabove and on page 2G ife^ ISE^
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Till-: WrXXKUY. ciikiikx itza A buildinj; of Yucatan Maya type (see also p. 2.), upper). Stone is used as facing and elaborate ornament relieves the outer surfaces. Note how this solid construction resists decay and renders possible an accurate appraisal of the architecture. After Totten, 192(j

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