*»- - - 



-~t- 



J^ n^SP 





Frost action aud tlie settling of tlie soil have broken most ol' the pottery buried with the dead, while 

 burrowing animals have scattered many of the fragments. Running the earth through a screen often 

 results in the recovery of all the i>ieces of a vessel 



Ornamented building stones have been found in one ruin in the La Plata Valley, and in Sun Temple 

 and one or two dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park. They indicate the beginning of mural 

 decoration which marks the highest stage of development reached by Pueblo architecture 



468 



