needles. The houses and all of the excavated materials show some 

 distinguishing features that may be ascribed to three sources: the 

 Concho Complex, the Anasazi (Pueblo) Complex centered to the 

 north of Vernon, and the Mogollon Complex based to the south and 

 west of Vernon. It is conjectured that the inhabitants of the village 

 were the cultural inheritors and descendants of the Concho beach- 

 dwellers who had been subjected to influences from two more highly 

 develoi>ed cultures — the Anasazi and the Mogollon — and who had 

 adopted some aspects of both, although in general the Mogollon traits 

 dominate. Probably the Mogollon people had not yet migrated to 

 this area. A guess-date on this pit-house village would be a.d. 600. 



When it was cleared, the fourth site (which was chosen for study 

 because appearances indicated that it was of later date than the pit- 

 house site) revealed a surface pueblo, or village, consisting of a series 

 of four rooms with walls of crude stone masonry. This living arrange- 

 ment is an abrupt change from the pit-house village and probably 

 represents a diffusion from Anasazi Indians living to the north. 

 Some of the tools and pottery types of the pit-house era had been 

 retained here, but there were a few innovations in tool and pottery 

 types, chief of which was a new black-and-white pottery (Snowflake 

 black-on-white) of unknown antecedents. The conjectured date of 

 this village is about A.D. 900. 



The fifth site selected for excavation was occupied about a.d. 1000 

 to 1100 probably by the Mogollon Indians who were perhaps migrat- 

 ing at this time into this area from the east and south. This village 

 consisted of twelve to fifteen rooms arranged in the cellular fashion 

 of a honeycomb, with a special room, or kiva, set aside for ceremonial 

 purposes. Perhaps forty to sixty people inhabited this pueblo. We 

 did not excavate the village itself because of lack of time, but in the 

 nearby burial mound we uncovered fifteen burials, eight of which 

 were infant skeletons. Eighteen pieces of mortuary pottery were re- 

 covered from the graves, eight from the grave of one child. Presum- 

 ably these pots had contained food offerings for the use of the spirit 

 in the hereafter. The pottery types included plain utility wares as 

 well as Snowflake black-on-white and Reserve black-on-white. The 

 sixth site was an area strewn with potsherds and fragments of stone 

 tools. Extensive trenching was carried on but no houses were found. 

 It is possible that this was merely the site of a way-station or a tem- 

 porary village. 



It is impossible at this time to assess the meaning of all the data 

 collected — one can only feel one's way. When adequate knowledge 

 of the area is obtained, more explicit statements and definite recon- 

 struction can be made. The Museum is proud to acknowledge the 



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