The Cliff dwellers of the Mesa Verde, southwestern Colorado : their pottery and implements (1893)
Nordenskiöld, Gustaf, 1868-1895, Morgan, Derec Llwyd · Stockholm ; Chicago : Norstedt · leaf 133
es. On the other hand, there are a few ruins on the mesa where the walls still rise to a considerable height. Besides, the more exposed parts of a cliff-dwelling are better sheltered than a building on the mesa, the cliff shielding them on one side from many storms which wreak their violence… … FIG. 41. RUIN ON THE MESA. (From a photograph by the author.) As I was prevented from carrying out the extensive excavations without which any thorough study of the ruins on the mesa was impossible, I cannot describe them in detail. I shall only give a short notice of two towers which I visited,…
Indians of North America
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