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 141
f these terraces. In addition to the ruins already described in this chapter I will mention the burial places, often of considerable extent, which are common on the mesa. Their site is indicated as a rule by a slight elevation, but most infallibly by numerous fragments of pottery and chips of flint… … FIG. 45. GRAVE ON THE MESA, SEEN FROM ABOVE. (From a photograph by the author.) on Wetherill’s Mesa excavations were instituted. We found in them a few objects, among these bone awls of the same type as in the cliff-dwellings, stone axes, also similar to those discovered in the ruins, and a little…
Indians of North America
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