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native uncultivated flora, and without considerable change in topog- 
raphy and flora there would be little change in the fauna.* 
In event of such desiccation some local migrations of species sug- 
gest themselves as possible. During August the writers found no 
blackbirds or meadowlarks on the mesas or in the canyons examined 
and conditions are not favorable to their regular presence there, but 
with somewhat greater precipitation moist meadows may have pro- 
vided a suitable habitat for the redwings and cultivated upland areas 
near water may have attracted the meadowlarks. Both are now 
found in favorable localities in the Rio Grande valley. In a paper 
hereinafter cited Mrs. Bailey says that in San Miguel county the 
meadowlark occurs only in depressions in the plains where there is 
water. The limited distribution of water restricts the habitat of 
ducks and shore birds, which once may have been more generally 
distributed. 
To understand fully the culture of a region it is necessary to know 
something of the native animals, especially those which have been 
useful to the people or which would have been noticed by them. The 
flesh of animals furnishes food, the skins provide raiment, thongs, 
and other useful products, and bones furnish awls and other imple- 
ments; but perhaps even more important, from the cultural point of 
view, is the fact that animals enter largely into the mythology and 
religion of primitive peoples. The finding, in the ruins, of bones 
other than human may fairly be assumed to indicate that the 
animals to which they belonged were used by the former inhabitants 
for utilitarian, ornamental, or ceremonial purposes. In most cases 
the character of the animals, the condition of the bones, or the cir- 
cumstances under which found suggests a marked probability as to 
the particular use. The culture, religion, and language of living 
peoples who are believed to be either directly descended from or closely 
related to the ancient inhabitants surely must throw much light on 
the subject. A large quantity of bones has been taken from the 
ruins of the Pajarito plateau, but the work of identification has not 
yet been completed. 
It is not likely that in the use of animals for food the ancient 
mhabitants of this region differed much from those of northeastern 
Arizona. Discussing the bones found in the latter region, Hough ” 
says: 
The remains show that most of the animals of the region were consumed as food; 
but, as might be anticipated, bones of the carnivora are much rarer than those of the 
herbivora, the latter represented by deer and rabbit species, and the former by the 
fox, coyote, wolf, dog, raccoon, badger, wildcat, and puma, but no bones of the bear 
1 See Bulletins 54 and 55 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
2 Hough, Walter, Archeological Field Work in Northeastern Arizona (The Museum-Gates Expedition 
of 1901), Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1901, pp. 356-57, 1903, 
