Show Tree ree Rings May l Solve Mayan l Calendar Puzzle Washington Tree Tree rings of the Southwest are now expected to solve the lie puzzle of the Mayan calendar enabling archeologists at last to date ate the magnificent ancient civilization civilization civili- civili that flourished in the American American Amer- Amer ican can tropics before Columbus New discoveries in Mayan ruins in n Guatemala which bring the solution solution tion ion definitely nearer were announced announced announced an an- here by Dr A. A V. V Kider archeologist of the Carnegie institution institution ution of Washington Dr Kidder who vho led the institutions institution's latest expedition expedition ex- ex edition to Guatemala told of finding finding find- find ing ng pottery there which was clearly cleary clear- clear ly y brought down to the Mayan cities by Dy Toltec Indian traders from their own wn great city of far faro farto farto to o the north near Mexico City Dr Kidder finds that these Mayas and the who traded with them hem were living livine either about I A. A D. D or A. A D. D D. D but which century century cen- cen tury ury is correct archeologists cannot cannot cannot can can- not agree It is the two conflicting ways of translating Mayan dates into ino into in- in to o our modern calendar one shifting Mayan history about years later than ban the other that Dr Kidder now sees hope of straightening out Archeologists must now seek the missing link Dr Kidder foresees to o settle the Mayan civilization in historic centuries And that link is isI pottery ottery or some other trade object linking inking these with the southwestern southwestern southwestern south south- western United States where pueblos pueblos los os built by Indians are precisely dated in centuries and even exact years by means of the tree ring calendar evolved by science |