House of the Ancients Horse Guards Plate 18 from The zoological

Plate 18 from The zoological miscellany

Frontispiece to An astronomical catechism

until recently

October 1949

House of the Ancients Horse Guards Plate 18 from The zoological'House of the Ancients, Island of Tinian', c1820 1839. Plate 31 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario. Examples of distinctive stone structures known as latte stones on the Mariana Islands built by the ancient Chamorro people. They were built to support important structures in villages. The construction of the latte is thought to have begun in the 9th century AD, but by the time Europeans discovered the islands in the 16th century they