. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. by stores againsta possible failure of crops. At the present day in some of the pueblosthe corn is thus stored, and sometimes great rooms full of it can beseen, containing the full crops of one or two years. Undoubtedly thesame custom of storing food prevailed in ancient times, and the wildertril)es found in the sedentary villages and in the fields tributary tothem convenient storehouses from which to draw their own the traditions are at all to be trusted, there was no open war norw
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. by stores againsta possible failure of crops. At the present day in some of the pueblosthe corn is thus stored, and sometimes great rooms full of it can beseen, containing the full crops of one or two years. Undoubtedly thesame custom of storing food prevailed in ancient times, and the wildertril)es found in the sedentary villages and in the fields tributary tothem convenient storehouses from which to draw their own the traditions are at all to be trusted, there was no open war norwere there determined sieges, but foray after foray was made by the BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXII. PLAN OF RUIN SHOWING LONG OCCUPANCY HiNDELEFF] CAUSES FOR CHOICE OF MESA SITES 641 wilder spirits of the nomadit tribes; fields were raided when ripe forthe harvest, and the fruit of a seasons labor was often swept away ina night. It soon Ijecame unsafe to leave the village unguarded, as adescent might be made upon it at any time when the men were away,and the stores accunudated for the winter might be carried off. Butthe detail of a number of men to guard the home was in itself a greathardship when men were few and subsistence difficult to obtain. Suchwere the conditions according to the ancient traditions. Under the pressure described the little villages or individual houses,located primarily with reference to the fields under cultivation, weregradually forced to aggregate into larger villages, and, the forajsof their wild neighbors continued and even increased, these villageswere moved to sites which affoided better facilities for through it all the main requirement
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