. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. PLATE 37 Often while digging on a site sundry patches of charcoal, small pits filled with ashes or showing signs of having had fire in them, burned stones and other camp debris are encountered. This modern site was replete with these incidentals. The fact that the Mexican soldiers had their families with them gave to this settlement an air of authenticity which it would not have had if the men had all been bachelors, or if the camp had been occupied but a few days. The evidences of domesticity
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. PLATE 37 Often while digging on a site sundry patches of charcoal, small pits filled with ashes or showing signs of having had fire in them, burned stones and other camp debris are encountered. This modern site was replete with these incidentals. The fact that the Mexican soldiers had their families with them gave to this settlement an air of authenticity which it would not have had if the men had all been bachelors, or if the camp had been occupied but a few days. The evidences of domesticity were so apparent that one could not help being impressed by them. The discarded shoes, scraps of feminine finery, broken toys, and shattered pottery spoke with mute voices, and save for their modernity must have been re- placed with similar perishable items in the long-ago towns. Open-air fireplaces over which the family meals were cooked have been in vogue for centuries. Very few of the dwellings had hearths in them, and those few were apparently used for heating the domiciles on nippy days. The absence of these fire pits in the huts was the one major difference between these houses and those of the ancients. However, even the Hohokam of the Gila used open-air pits presumably for cooking, and the presence of caliche trivets as well as fire-burned stones on the Grew site' outside the ruined houses gives ample evidence that the Old People also had open- air kitchens. The majority of the houses were covered with the tawny soil of Sonora. Some of the exteriors were dampened and smoothed into a rude plaster (PI. 39). Others had the earth heaped upon them without further ceremony or any procedure other than piling it on the brush covering the side poles. ^ Woodward, Arthur; The Grewe Site, Occasional Papers No. 1, Los Angeles Mu- seum, 1931. 92. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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