Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . he ground plan of this village shows clearly a somewhatextended period of occupancy and a gradual growth in size, flic eastem half of the village, which is located along (lie edge of the bluff,probably preceded the western in point of time. If will be noticed that,while the wall lines arc seldom continuous for more than three rooms, yet the rooms themselves are arranged with a certain degree of regu larity, in that the longer axes are usually parallel. 204 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. |E1II. AN
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . he ground plan of this village shows clearly a somewhatextended period of occupancy and a gradual growth in size, flic eastem half of the village, which is located along (lie edge of the bluff,probably preceded the western in point of time. If will be noticed that,while the wall lines arc seldom continuous for more than three rooms, yet the rooms themselves are arranged with a certain degree of regu larity, in that the longer axes are usually parallel. 204 ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. |E1II. ANN. 18 The masonry of this village is almost entirely of flat bowlders, obtainedprobably from the bed of the creek immediately below. The terrace onwhich the village was built, and in fact all the hills about it are com-posed of gravel and bowlders, but it would be easier to carry the bowl-ders up from the stream bed than to quarry them from the hillside,and in the former case there would be a better opportunity for selec-tion. Plate xvi shows the character of the rock employed, and illus-. Fio. 281.—Ground plan of ruin near the mouth of Fossil creek. trates the extent to which selection of rock has been carried. Althoughthe walls are built entirely of river bowlders the masonry presentsalmost as good a face as some of the ruins previously described asbuilt of slabs of limestone, and this is due to careful selection of thestone employed. About half a mile above the mouth of Fossil creek, and on the east-ern side of the river, a deep ravine comes in from the north and east, II
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