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Excerpt from Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River Valleys in Arizona and New Mexico Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River Valleys in Arizona and New Mexico was written by Walter Hough in 1907. This is a 117 page book, containing 36947 words and 61 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...of Luna, a town on the San Francisco river. The ruins along the Blue are located on terraces above the stream, near lands suitable for cultivation; they are rectangular stone pueblos, and are generally accompanied with square kivas. Numerous small pueblos are also found on the creeks flowing into the Blue, but there are few caves, because the rock is not of the character to permit this kind of erosion. There is abundant water in this valley, and the climate is equable, so that agriculture could have been carried on by the Indians with the greatest returns. Although the valuable farming land was limited the pueblos are, in the main, large and from various evidences were long inhabited. From Clifton, Ariz., along the San Francisco to a short distance above the mouth of the Blue there are a few ruins of the rectangular pueblo type, which are noted under nos. 26-32 in the following pages. Fig. 9. Sketch map of Blue river, Arizona, showing location of ruins. No. 26. Pueblo.--This ruin is located on the bluff overlooking the town hospital of Clifton, Ariz. Rough volcanic rocks almost cover the site, and among them the rooms were built without attempt at orderly arrangement. Some of the dwellings were formed by picking out loose masses of lava from a small area and piling them up around the sides to build the walls. The pottery is chiefly brown, and consists of bowls with fillet rims and vessels with coiled or rugose surfaces. Some excavation has been attempted here by citizens of Clifton. At the foot of the bluff on which the ruin is located petroglyphs representing the sun, serpent, water, and other objects, have been pecked on a smooth rock face. of the pueblo runs a dry-laid stone wall. It is reported that cremation burials have been...
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