. Bulletin. Ethnology. judd] ARCHEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 23 bits of six bone awls; to the east of these were four manos (hand stones for use on the metates or grinding mills) and part of a metate. Other artifacts and several unworked cobblestones lay streAvn over the floor; also a number of split animal bones. The following day excavations were commenced in the larger of the two mounds on the Dave Geordge property. According to the owner, this mound had formerly extended more than 50 feet farther west (fig. 3), but a portion had been sacrificed about 1910 when the adjacent field was leveled. Mr
. Bulletin. Ethnology. judd] ARCHEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 23 bits of six bone awls; to the east of these were four manos (hand stones for use on the metates or grinding mills) and part of a metate. Other artifacts and several unworked cobblestones lay streAvn over the floor; also a number of split animal bones. The following day excavations were commenced in the larger of the two mounds on the Dave Geordge property. According to the owner, this mound had formerly extended more than 50 feet farther west (fig. 3), but a portion had been sacrificed about 1910 when the adjacent field was leveled. Mr. Geordge recalls that adobe walls were encountered in the section destroyed, and that earthen floors in some of the rooms rested upon layers of cobblestones. Elsewhere, but chiefly along the northern and southern borders of the elevation, quantities of earth had been removed by individual. Fig. 3.—Sketch of the Geordge Mound, showing trenches cut and walls exposed in 1915 citizens. Since it was quite obvious that the opportunity for pre- paring a complete ground plan of this prehistoric community had been irretrievably lost, excavation of the entire mound was not un- dertaken. Those walls already in evidence were exposed and limited search was made for still other undisturbed remains. The observa- tions made during the course of this brief investigation may be con- sidered as a unit. The nine rooms in the Geordge mound wholly or partially exca- vated were never more than one story in height. Their walls had been constructed entirely of adobe mud laid in relatively large masses which appear as courses of from 16 to 20 inches ( cm.) in thickness. Contrary to popular belief, these courses or layers do not prove that the aborigines employed movable frames in con- 81069°—26 3. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly r
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