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"Yet here we have what is obviously a defensive work, and it seems significant that the only two walls of this kind which have hitherto been discovered are also in Yucatan, one being at Tuluum, on the east coast, and the other at Chichen Itza, in the northern interior. Against whom were these defences erected? Judging by the date on the stela, they were built centuries before the Mayas came in contact with the Tolecs, on the north. It has been assumed that Yucatan was uninhabited when the Mayas first took possession of it, and they were not in the habit of building such walls in their earlier cities to the south. Why this innovation?