North America . esenttribes have inhabited the same territory for a great lengthof time. In this same general region are found the housesof the cliff-dwellers, who excavated rooms in the faces ofprecipices, frequently high above their bases and only ac-cessible by means of holes, serving as steps, cut in the rock,or with the aid of ladders. In many instances these ancientcliff-dwellers, of which no certain descendants remain, tookadvantage of natural caverns, or of overhanging ledges,which were closed by means of walls of rough stone andadobe. The pueblo dwellings, built largely of adobe, are
North America . esenttribes have inhabited the same territory for a great lengthof time. In this same general region are found the housesof the cliff-dwellers, who excavated rooms in the faces ofprecipices, frequently high above their bases and only ac-cessible by means of holes, serving as steps, cut in the rock,or with the aid of ladders. In many instances these ancientcliff-dwellers, of which no certain descendants remain, tookadvantage of natural caverns, or of overhanging ledges,which were closed by means of walls of rough stone andadobe. The pueblo dwellings, built largely of adobe, are statedby ethnologists to have extended southward into Mexico,and illustrate the nature of the houses in which the Aztecslived, but the highest type of aboriginal architecture in Amer-ica is furnished by the dwellings and so-called temples, pal-aces, etc., still standing in Yucatan and other portions ofCentral America. In these ruins we have abundant exampleof buildings made of cut stone, laid in regular and even. — ? i • J*. ? «, . ? ..—:
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