. Bulletin. Ethnology. 'It \ â '>.w building, whose rude walls were oriented due east and west, while the later building follows the customary orientation. In a number of instances among the Spur Ranch ruins evidence was secured going to prove that frequently former constructions were razed, the sites being regraded and built upon. For this reason the burials which cus- tomarily were made in the ac- cumulations of debris near the houses are represented only by fragments of skeletons and pot- tery dispersed in the soil. Ex- cavation at this place as on sites similarly affected was pro- ducti
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 'It \ â '>.w building, whose rude walls were oriented due east and west, while the later building follows the customary orientation. In a number of instances among the Spur Ranch ruins evidence was secured going to prove that frequently former constructions were razed, the sites being regraded and built upon. For this reason the burials which cus- tomarily were made in the ac- cumulations of debris near the houses are represented only by fragments of skeletons and pot- tery dispersed in the soil. Ex- cavation at this place as on sites similarly affected was pro- ductive of few material results. In one pit, however, which was sunk below the zone of soil containing human artifacts, the remains of a human skele- ton accompanied with deer bones and rude flint flakes were encountered. The remains were in clean, hard-packed, coarse wash gravel, which to all ap- pearance retained the charac- teristics of its deposition from water. The ^position of the find suggests antiquity. On the higher portion of the ridge on which this ruin stands is a shrine, and near it a number of large stones rudely aligned. (See fig. 38.) No. 88. Pueblo.âA small ruin exists in the flat below no. 86, near the foundation of an old Mexi- can house. (See fig. 38.) No. 89. Pueblo.âLying on the north side of the valley halfway between the ranch house and the San Francisco river is a ruin consisting of two rectangular house masses ad- joining a " ; A short distance to the north of these ruins is a terrace, at the rear of which is a heap of stones, and to the south are two shrines filled with stone concretion offerings. No. 90. Pueblo.âThis ruin lies on the south side of the valley 2^ miles south by east of the Spur Ranch house, near the San Francisco river, at kk Mill ; It is merely a rectangular stone ruin 45 by 51 feet in dimensions and does not possess a " ; Fig. 36. Plan of ruin no. S6, Spur QsuRine ,*S»"
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