Travelers, jungle, lost cities and ugly idols. American antiques in the European American thought of XIX century

ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: El presente estudio analiza algunos de los textos e imágenes realizadas por viajeros europeos y norteamericanos durante el siglo XIX, en relación con la arqueología mexicana, tras su visita a las ciudades mayas del sur de México. Estudiando y caracterizando su contribución a la construcción del pensamiento americanista europeo. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This study examines some of the texts and images created by European and American travelers in the nineteenth century after visiting the Maya cities of southern Mexico, and their relationship to Mexican archaeology. Their contribution to the construction of European Americanist thought will be studied and characterized.