. Bulletin. Ethnology. PEWKBS] PREHISTORIC VILLACKS, CASTLES, AND TOWERS 61 The ruins on this mesa arc of two kinds: small inclosures made of slabs of stone set on edge and semicircular structures (fig. 18), also constructed of upright stone slabs or megaliths. Three of the latter have concentric surrounding walls with a "vestibule" entrance (?) at the south somewhat like rooms at the bases of towers. One of these is said by Morley and Kidder to have three concentric walls. The small box-like structures are numerous, and are rudely constructed, united in an imperfect ring about the c
. Bulletin. Ethnology. PEWKBS] PREHISTORIC VILLACKS, CASTLES, AND TOWERS 61 The ruins on this mesa arc of two kinds: small inclosures made of slabs of stone set on edge and semicircular structures (fig. 18), also constructed of upright stone slabs or megaliths. Three of the latter have concentric surrounding walls with a "vestibule" entrance (?) at the south somewhat like rooms at the bases of towers. One of these is said by Morley and Kidder to have three concentric walls. The small box-like structures are numerous, and are rudely constructed, united in an imperfect ring about the circular rooms. In verification of the various theories that have been suggested to account for these rectangular structures—their interpretation as storage bins, burial places, and cremation rooms—we have no proof. Similar rooms of megaliths g^S> <^H^ exist on Sandstone Canyon and at other places to the north and in Montezuma Canyon to the west. The rude, massive character of the masonry leads me to refer them to the slab-house cul- ture of Kidder and the im- perfect masonry suggests they were habitations in a period antedating that of the pure pueblo culture. Such fragments of pottery as were found were, like the archi- tecture, rude and archaic, adding weight to the inter- pretation that they belonged to a very old epoch. The author regards the structures made of stones set on edge as very old, possibly examples of the most primitive buildings in the McEhno region, antedating the pueblos with horizontal masonry farther east. West of the mouth of the Yellow Jacket, especially on the Montezuma Mesa, these megalithic walls are more pretentious, as if this was the center of the earlier phase of house buildings. In the eastern ruins these slabs of stone set on edge sometimes appear as at Far View House with horizontal masonry, but more as a survival. Since then discovery and description by Jackson and Holmes 40 years ago, little has been added to our knowledge of these i
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