Com (charred cobs found) and probably beans and squashes were 

 planted in the floodplain of the Little Colorado just below the 

 village, an excellent site for agriculture. Certainly the river water 

 was used for domestic purposes and may have been used for sheet 

 irrigation, although there is no evidence. 



Some 25,600 potsherds were recovered from stratified rubbish 

 and from the fill and floor of rooms and kivas. These sherds have 

 been placed in twenty-five types of painted wares and about twelve 

 utility types. In all, forty-nine whole or restorable vessels were 

 recovered. Early pottery types occurred throughout the debris, 

 but if any earlier rooms existed they had been completely razed. 

 A technological study of all of these sherds is in progress. One 

 technique (that of refiring sherds at constant temperature) is used 

 to determine similarities or dissimilarities of clays and thus to deter- 

 mine which are imported or locally made pots. Howard Anderson 

 is making the analyses. 



Tentative conclusions based on refiring and microscopic and 

 chemical analyses indicate that the painted decorated pottery — 

 Salado polychromes, Hopi yellow, and Zuni glazes — was obtained 

 by trade from areas to the southwest, northwest, and northeast and 

 at distances varying from 70 miles to 200 miles. The remainder — 

 that is, the bulk of the pottery consisting of about 20,000 sherds of 

 utility wares (unpainted types) — was probably made locally and 

 is Mogollon in character. We wonder if the inhabitants of the site 

 at the Davis ranch made any painted pottery. We do not know at 

 present. It is conceivable that the "foreign" (traded) types were 

 all made at the Davis ranch site by artisans and craftsmen who 

 brought clay, paints, temper, and the ideas for the traditionally 

 correct designs from the various areas mentioned. We do not know 

 what the Indians at the Davis ranch site used for barter. 



More than 850 stone, bone, shell, and textile artifacts were 

 recovered from the pueblo. These comprise the tools and other 

 accessories of a technology with a continuity that had lasted some 

 2,000 years but had at the same time included the industrial arts 

 of a well-developed Stone Age culture. Many of the chipped-stone 

 tools have their counterparts in the earlier areas of the culture, and 

 the majority of the milling tools were shaped by the most primitive 

 methods of pecking and grinding. On the other hand, many new 

 tools and tool types had come to be used, such as grooved axes, 

 arrow-shaft tools, saws, and sledge hammers. Some of these were 

 polished. Meanwhile, certain types of axes, mauls, hoes, and arrow- 

 shaft tools impart a Western Pueblo character to the whole and 

 indicate that the culture was Mogollon in derivation. 



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