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The American archaeologist [serial] (1898)

Columbus, Ohio : Landon Print. and Pub. Co. · leaf 218

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ofthe Cliff Dweller region. In figure I a skeleton is shown. Bj the head is a small olla filled with earth;about one-third of an olla lies near the knees. It was filled with charcoal andashes. The skeleton lay in a grave made of adobe, two feel in width, six feetlong and five feet below the surface… … contained thirt) or fort) rooms. Yet the structure appears to have been occupiedat various times, and one room had been built above another without regardto the plan of the structure. As this ruin was only thirteen feet high, our ex-plorations were somewhat extensive, but it was impossible to draw…

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