In the 1840s, John L. Stephens traveled through northern Yucatan. While staying at the hacienda of San Francisco, he had locals dig into a square building at the ruins nearby. After six hours, a burial appeared below a flat stone. Everybody wondered whose bones these were. Stephens collected the skeletal remains and brought them back to the States where he carried them one night to the then-famous physician Samuel G. Morton. Doctor Morton had studied skulls from all over the world and deduced race and intellectual ability from cranial capacity. He looked at the bones from northern Yucatan and asserted that they were the remains of a Native American adult female who was 5’3” to 5’4” tall.

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玛雅人-库库尔坎之前：玛雅人生命，死亡和同一时期的生物考古学Yaxuná。Viera Tiesler，Andrea Cucina，Travis W. Stanton和David A. Freidel撰写。图森：亚利桑那大学出版社，2017年。305. $ 80.00布。

在1840年代，约翰·史蒂芬斯（John L. Stephens）穿越尤卡坦北部。住在旧金山庄园时，他让当地人在附近的废墟上挖了一座方形建筑。六个小时后，在一块平坦的石头下面出现了一个墓葬。每个人都想知道这些是谁的骨头。史蒂芬斯（Stephens）收集了这些骨骼遗骸，并将其带回美国，在那里他将它们带了一夜送到当时著名的医师塞缪尔·莫顿（Samuel G. Morton）。莫顿博士研究了来自世界各地的头骨，并从颅骨能力推论出种族和智力。他看了从尤卡坦半岛北部的骨头，断言它们是美国原住民成年女性的遗体，高5'3”至5'4”。