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Aboriginal Remains In Verde Valley Arizona Thirteenth Annual Re

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1

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2. Chapter 2

Most of the modern settlements of the Rio Verde are along the upper portion of its course. Prescott is situated on Granite creek, one of the sources of the river, and along othe...

3. Chapter 3

It will be noticed that the size of rooms is more varied in the southwestern and southern clusters than in the remaining portions of the village. In the southwestern cluster roo...

4. Chapter 4

About a quarter of a mile west of the main ruin there is another small but well-preserved cluster of rooms. It occupies the narrow ridge of a hill some 200 feet above the river....

5. Chapter 5

Cavate lodges comprise a type of structures closely related to cliff houses and cave dwellings. The term is a comparatively new one, and the structures themselves are not widely...

6. Chapter 6

The cliffs themselves are built of volcanic sands and ashes, and many of the strata are exceedingly light and friable. The specific gravity of some of these rocks is so low that...

7. Chapter 7

Externally these bowlder-marked sites have every appearance of great antiquity, but all the evidence obtainable in regard to them indicates that they were connected with and inh...

8. Chapter 8

The whole surface of the terrace within the limits described is covered by small water-worn bowlders scattered so thickly over it that travel is seriously impeded. In many parts...

9. Chapter 9

In the cavate lodges window openings are not found; there is but one opening, the doorway, and this is of a pronounced and peculiar type. As a rule these doorways are wider at t...

10. Chapter 10

ACOMA, Abandonment of 261 -- Kivas in 257 -- Selection of site of 215 ADOBE, Absence of, in Verde ruins 187, 257 -- construction of modern introduction 238 -- Limit to use of 23...