INDEX
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- Acmen Ruin, described, 29
- Antiquities, minor, 66
- Architecture, culture areas determined by, 69
- Architecture, Pueblo—
- elements of, 73
- of local origin, 70
- Aztec architecture, unlike that of Pueblos, 69
- Aztec Spring, ruins at, 23
- described by Holmes, 24
- described by Jackson, 24
- ground plan of, 26
- Beams, wooden, method of shaping, 67
- Blanchard Ruin, 23
- Bone, objects made of, 67
- Bowlder Castle, description of, 57
- Bowls, mortuary, 66
- Bug Mesa Ruin, description of, 19
- Bug Point Ruin, excavation of, showing unit type, 29
- Burial customs, 66, 67
- Burial places—
- mentioned by Morgan, 21
- near Holmes Tower, 59
- on Grass Mesa, 64
- on the Dolores, 11
- Burkhardt Ruin. See Mud Spring Ruin.
- Butte Ruin, description of, 32
- Cannonball Ruin—
- description of, 30
- structural features of, 42
- Castles, structural features of, 40
- Caves—
- apparently used for storage, 60
- walled-up, 59
- Cemeteries. See Burial places.
- Ceremonial rooms, Hopi and Zuñi, not true kivas, 71
- Chaco Canyon Ruins, comparative age of, 72
- Circular Ruins—
- distribution of, 31
- structural features of, 31
- Cliff-dwellers—
- culture of, 9
- region occupied by, 9
- Cliff-dwellings—
- architectural features of, 37
- classification of, 15
- double, 38
- in Lost Canyon, 40
- small, in the McElmo region, 37
- Communal dwellings, 71
- preceded by “small house”, 70
- social conditions indicated by, 69
- Consolidation of units, process of, 74
- Corn, charred, found embedded in slag, 60
- Davis Tower—
- ground plan, 55
- location of, 55
- Depressions indicating kivas, 42
- Dove Creek Ruins, 28
- Eight Mile Ruin, masonry in, 41
- Emerson, J. W., description of ruin by, 34
- Emerson Ruin, description of, 33
- Entrances—
- to kivas, 42
- to towers, 42
- walled-up, 57
- Eroded Bowlder House, description of, 49
- Escalante and Dominguez, manuscript diary of, 36
- Escalante Ruin, description of, 36
- Far View House, a pueblo of pure type, 15, 16
- Gibraltar House. See Stronghold House.
- Gila Valley compounds, 71
- allied to Mexican buildings, 67
- Goodman Point Ruin, description of, 17
- Grass Mesa, cemetery on, 64
- Great houses—
- date of construction undetermined, 43
- possible use of, 42, 76
- structural features of, 40
- Hackberry Canyon cliff-house, a “unit type”, 40
- Hackberry Castle, description of, 52
- Hackberry group, elements composing, 74
- Hill Canyon Ruins, 42
- masonry of, 42
- Holly Canyon—
- ground plan, 52
- ruins of, 52
- Holly Canyon group, elements composing, 74
- Holly House Ruins, description of, 53
- Holmes, W. H.—
- on probable use of towers, 42
- on tower at Mud Spring, 20
- report of, as reference work, 11
- report on ruins by, 10, 11
- slab inclosures described by, 62
- Holmes Tower, description of, 58
- Hopi ceremonial rooms, not true kivas, 71
- Horseshoe House—
- compared with Sun Temple, 54
- description of, 53
- ground plan, 54
- structural features of, 40
- Hovenweep Castle—
- description of, 47
- ground plan of, 47
- Hovenweep district—
- a proposed National Monument, 44
- canyons of, containing ruins, 44
- ruins of, 44
- Hovenweep House, description of, 46
- Implements, stone, 67
- Ingersoll, Ernest, newspaper article by, 11
- Jackson, Wm. H.—
- report of, as work of reference, 11
- report of, on ruins, 10, 11
- slab inclosures described by, 62
- Johnson Ruin, description of, 18
- Keeley Towers, location of, 45
- Kidder, A. V. See Morley and Kidder.
- Kiva of Unit type House, architectural features of, 51
- Kivas—
- double-walled, 39
- entrances to, 42
- indicated by depressions, 42
- indicative of social units, 70
- structural features of, 37
- Lion Tower—
- description of, 55
- ground plan of, 55
- Littrell Tower. See Lion Tower.
- Lost Canyon cliff-houses, 40
- “Lower House,” of Aztec Spring Ruin, 25, 27
- McElmo Bluff, ruins at, 60
- McElmo district—
- distinctive feature of ruins of, 15
- investigations in, of 1917, 10
- McElmo Ruins, latest work on, 14
- McLean Basin—
- ground plan of ruins of, 56
- pottery found in, 56
- ruins of, described, 55
- towers of, 56
- Mancos region, towers of, 58
- Masonry—
- of Hill Canyon Ruins, 42
- skill shown in construction, 40
- varieties of, 41
- Megalithic ruins, 60
- Megaliths, circular structures of, 60
- Mesa Verde—
- cliff-dwellings and villages of, 9
- culture of inhabitants of, 9
- Mesa Verde Ruins, comparative age of, 72
- Metates—
- found at Surouaro, 17
- with skeletal remains, 67
- Mexican tribes and the Pueblos, relation between, 69
- Mitchell, H. L., notes contributed by, 11
- Mitchell Spring Ruin, description of, 19
- Mitchell Spring village, origin of the name, 12
- Monoliths in walls, 30
- Montezuma Valley, distinctive feature of ruins in, 15
- Moorehead, Warren K., ruins described by, 12
- Morgan, L. H.—
- investigation of ruins by, 10, 11
- notes of, on ruins of Mesa Verde, 11
- on Mitchell Spring Ruin, 19
- on Mud Creek village, 21
- Morley, S. G.—
- excavations conducted by, 30
- work of, 13
- Morley, S. G., and Kidder, A. V., ruins described by, 14
- Mounds—
- near Mummy Lake, 15
- of Mud Spring Ruin, 21
- Mud Spring Ruin, description of, 20
- Mummy Lake mounds, 15
- Nelson, N. C., on Pueblo ruins, 17
- Newberry, J. S., on Surouaro, 17
- Nordenskiöld, Baron G., work of, 13
- Oak Spring House, description of, 29
- Old Spanish Trail, route of, 36, 68
- Open-air ruins of Dove Creek, 28
- Parker, Gordon, assistance of, 40
- Pictographs—
- colored, 65
- covered with plaster, 65
- incised on stone, 65
- near Ruin 5, 49
- near slab inclosures, 63
- Pierson Lake Ruin. See Squaw Point Ruin.
- Pilasters lacking in towers, 42
- Plastering, interiors covered with, 41
- Pottery—
- culture areas determined by, 69
- description of, 66
- Prudden, T. Mitchell—
- articles by, on ruins of San Juan watershed, 12
- excavations conducted by, 19
- on towers as part of composite ruins, 44
- Pueblo architecture—
- elements of complex, 73
- of local origin, 70
- Pueblo culture, direction of its migration, 72
- Pueblo tribes, origin of, 69
- “Pure type” defined, 16
- Reservoir Group, named by J. Ward Emerson, 34
- Reservoirs, Indian—
- crossed by Old Bluff Road, 45
- natural and artificial, 64
- Road Canyon, formerly called the Wickyup, 57
- Rooms, with megalithic walls, 15
- Ruin 3, description of, 48
- Ruin 4, description of, 49
- Ruin 5, description of, 49
- Ruin 6, description of, 49
- Ruin 7. See Eroded Bowlder House.
- Ruin 8. See Twin Towers.
- Ruin 9, description of, 50
- Ruin 10. See Unit type House.
- Ruin 11. See Stronghold House.
- Ruin Canyon—
- duplication of name misleading, 45
- ruin in, 30
- unit type houses of, 40
- Ruins—
- classification of, 14
- evidences of age of, 73
- Sand Canyon—
- cliff-dwellings in, 38
- scaffold in, 38
- tower in, 57
- Scaffold for lookout, 38
- Semicircular ruins, description of, 22
- Slab inclosures—
- described by Jackson, 62
- described by Holmes, 62
- Slab structures—
- box-like, 60
- circular, 60
- pottery found near, 61
- theories concerning, 61
- “Small house” type of architecture, 70
- Social organization, relation between architecture and, 75
- “Spanish Trail.” See Old Spanish Trail.
- Square Tower Canyon—
- classification of ruins in, 46
- directions for reaching, 45
- map of, 45
- new name for Ruin Canyon, 45
- Squaw Point Ruin, described, 28
- Stone Arch House, location of, 38
- Stronghold House, description of, 52
- Sun Dial Palace, named by J. Ward Emerson, 34
- Sun Temple—
- discovery of, 10
- evidence of age of, 73
- possible use of, 76
- unique ground plan of, 42
- Surouaro—
- description of, 16
- named by Newberry, 12
- signification of name, 17
- Towers—
- D-shaped, 44
- date of construction undetermined, 43
- entrance to, 42
- entrance walled up, 57
- forms of, 43
- of Holly Canyon, 52
- of McLean Basin, 56
- of Mancos region, 58
- of Sand Canyon, 57
- of Wickyup Canyon, 57
- possible use of, 42
- structural features of, 40
- windows absent in, 42
- Towers and great houses—
- form and construction of, 15
- situation of, 15
- “Triple-walled tower”—
- at Mud Spring Ruin, 20
- condition of, in 1881, 21
- visited by Holmes, 11
- Twin Towers—
- description of, 50
- ground plan of, 50
- Unit type—
- defined, 16, 39
- described by Prudden, 12
- origin of, 72
- unlike small house of Little Colorado, 70
- Unit type House—
- description of, 50
- ground plan of, 51
- Unit type houses—
- in cave, 39
- in Hackberry Canyon, 40
- “Upper House” of Aztec Spring Ruin, 25, 26, 27
- Villages—
- defined, 16
- essential features of, 14, 16
- Weapons, iron, 68
- Wickyup Canyon—
- description of, 57
- towers in, 57
- Wolley Ranch Ruin, description of, 22
- Wood Canyon Ruins, description of, 32
- Yellow Jacket Canyon—
- formerly known as Hovenweep, 57
- investigations in, 10
- towers of, 54
- Zuñi ceremonial rooms not true kivas, 71
PLATE 1
a, BUTTE RUIN
b, AZTEC SPRING RUIN
c, SUROUARO,
YELLOW JACKET SPRING RUIN
(Photographs by Jacob Wirsula)
PLATE 2
a, BLANCHARD RUIN
b, BLANCHARD RUIN,
MOUND 2
c, SUROUARO,
YELLOW JACKET SPRING RUIN
(Photographs by Jacob Wirsula)
PLATE 3
a, ACMEN RUIN
(Photograph by T. G. Lemmon)
b, MUD SPRING RUIN
(Photograph by Jacob Wirsula)