Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . mindeleff] STONE VILLAGES AND CAVATE LODGES. 193 The ruins of the first group, or stone villages located on bottomlands without reference to defense, represent in size and in degree ofskill attained by the builders the highest type in this region, althoughthey are not so numerous as those of the other groups. They are ofthe same type as, although sometimes smaller in size than, the greatvalley pueblos of the regions on the north and south, wherein reliancefor defense was placed in massive and well-pla
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . mindeleff] STONE VILLAGES AND CAVATE LODGES. 193 The ruins of the first group, or stone villages located on bottomlands without reference to defense, represent in size and in degree ofskill attained by the builders the highest type in this region, althoughthey are not so numerous as those of the other groups. They are ofthe same type as, although sometimes smaller in size than, the greatvalley pueblos of the regions on the north and south, wherein reliancefor defense was placed in massive and well-planned structures and noton natural advantages of location. In the north this-class of ruin hasbeen shown to be the last stage in a long course of evolution, and thereis a suggestion that it occupies the same relation to the other ruins inthe Verde region; this question, however, will later be discussed atsome length. The best example of this type on the lower Verde is alarge ruin, located in a considerable bottom on the eastern side of theriver, about a mile above the mouth of Limestone cr
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