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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Up to the present time very little excavation had been done in the mapped 

 area although immediately to the north in the more rugged and picturesque 

 Pajarito Park district, important work has been carried on for some years 

 by the School of American Archaeology located at Santa Fe. It was partly 

 with a view to profit by the presence of comparative culture material from 

 an adjacent locality that the Museum excavations were begun at the 

 northern extremity of the region under consideration. Here the ruins 







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Petroglyphs near Pueblo San Cristobal. Deer, snakes and other animals are repre- 

 sented 



are also more thickly scattered than farther to the south, and climatic as 

 well as other material conditions made it altogether the most suitable region 

 in which to make a beginning. 



The specific locality chosen was a large barren depression about twenty- 

 five miles south of 'Santa Fe and the gathering place for the several streams 

 which make up Galisteo Creek, an affluent of the Rio Grande some thirty 



