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Show LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN 46 HISTORY was even, and but were carefully selected, so that the wall surface ing layers in some cases a decorative effect was given by alternat with crevices the g chinkin by of smaller and larger pieces and and out and inside d plastere es sometim were The walls spawls. The door-ways were small and squarish, finished with clay paint. or square and often did not extend to the floor, except an opening were lintels The feet. the for passage the of notch in the center stone slabs or consisted of a number of sticks or small timbers. Windows or outlook apertures were numerous and generally small. That The antiquity of the cliff-dwellings can only be surmised. many of them were occupied in comparatively recent times is apparent from their excellent state of preservation, but their great numbers and the extent of the work accomplished suggest very Just when the occupancy of the cliffs began, considerable antiquity. whether five hundred or five thousand years ago will probably always remain a mooted question. Striking differences in the crania of earlier and later occupants of the cliff-dwellings are cited to prove earlier occupancy by a distinct craniologists but race, observe that equally striking differ- ences exist between tribes living side by side at the present day. It may be safely said that to the present time no evidence of the former general occupancy of the region by peoples other than those now classed as Pueblo Indians, or their neighbors, has been furnished. If we are to judge from results obtained by archexolo- gists studying this interesting subject in other localities, and particularly as to the origin and occupation of the great communal houses of the Pajarito plateau, it is not unlikely that the problem of origin and occupancy of the cliff-dwellings will soon be solved.?® Flagstaff, Arizona, certain rude habitations may be seen excavated e slopes of cinder cones and in the steep faces of scoriaceous deposits. These or by shafts aes fae oes excvated in the steep slopes of cliffs, pe . . Near oni (ae divans Tn the +a Qweltiies te A ear hn ed pe arate ' deni aes i ae is believed the occupants that hes a part of the great Pueblo family. i ih a Piedras Verdes river, Chihuahua, _ Mexico, 0 are cliff- These are in ruins or - x pey — £ me sinnien atte a dwellings -oceupied today by the HisanacGis aalae aa ie ti" Sener cliff-dwellings thus far observed are in the state of J ad i C ad Mexice: u of ee i, Burea To30, part Bul. . : W. H., ’ y:Handbook ; Indi ians, Holmes, Ethnology. Amon g oftheAmerican American more important examples of are the so-called Cliff Palace in Walnut Canyon, and the ‘abradd the cliff rus Tree House in |