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Show ANTIQUITY OP MAN 83 1 teresting finds have been made, especially of stone articles.' Pottery seems to have been unknown in this region until after the coming of the Spaniards. 1 x In the pueblo region, however, most remarkable remains have been found^ High up on the sides of many of the numerous canons of this section were discovered the ruins of old stone buildings containing from a single room to more than a hundred, and sometimes three or four stories high. The largest of these, known as Cliff Palace,\ is estimated to have one hundred and twenty - five rooms on the ground floor alone, < JTiese structures are perched on lofty and almost inaccessible ledges or shelves along the walls of the canons, and are protected by the overhanging cliffs above. \ They are especially numerous in the region of the Mesa Verde, in southwestern Colorado, but are found in many of the neighboring canons, and even in the region west of the Colorado and in northern Mexico. \ As they are well protected by recesses in the canon wall, not only the stone- work, but the wooden beams of the floors between the different stories are well preserved. On examination these ruins have yielded a large number of interesting objects. Among them may be enumerated several skeletons, one wrapped in a kind of feather cloth, others in mat- 1 Gates, Prehistoric Man in California; Gates, in Moorehead, Prehistoric Implements, 230- 252; also reports by F. W. Putnam et al. f in U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the tooth Meridian, VII. ( Archeology). |