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quently the rock is exposed to vandalism. The inscriptions, so im- 
portant in relation to the early history of the southwest, are ever 
threatened with destruction at the hands of thoughtless visitors who 
scratch their own names in dangerous proximity to these old records 
of early exploration. 
Mr. Hodge later joined Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, director of the 
School of American Archeology, on an expedition to the Jemez valley, 
about 65 miles northwest of Albuquerque, where excavations were 
Fic. 34——El] Morro, Inscription Rock in western New Mexico. 
conducted in the ruins of a large stone pueblo known as Kwasteyukwa, 
which measures about 1,100 feet by 600 feet, and is situated on a mesa 
rising 1,800 feet above Jemez River. This pueblo was evidently con- 
temporary with Amoxiumqua, which was occupied from prehistoric 
times to the year 1622, when it was abandoned on account of the 
depredations of the Navajo Indians. Seven years later Amoxiumqua 
was rebuilt and re-occupied at the instance of a Franciscan missionary 
and remained inhabited for some time prior to 1680 when it was 
permanently abandoned. 
Excavations, chiefly in the refuse heaps which formed the ceme- 
teries of Kwasteyukwa, brought to light about 125 skeletons and more 
