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A study of the houses of the American aborigines; with suggestions for the exploration of the ruins in New Mexico, Arizona, the valley of the San Juan, and in Yucatan and Central America, under the auspices of the Archæological institute (1880)

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 · Cambridge [Mass.] · leaf 72

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t base, ten feet high, and with a summit platformtwenty-two feet wide. If a surface coating of clay wereused, the sides could be made steeper, and the summitplatform broader. Such embankments would provide anample site for long, joint-tenement houses, divided intochambers, opening upon a central…

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