NOS SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQ15 Q7 
of the distribution of aboriginal culture characteristics of the Mesa 
Verde National Park. 
Information has been brought from time to time to the attention of 
the Smithsonian Institution that there exists in the northern part of 
Texas a large ruin known as the Buried City of the Panhandle. The 
name suggests that this may be a community dwelling, and it has 
occurred to several students that this “ city,” 1f such exists, marks the 
eastern extension of the Pueblo area. In order to determine the truth 
of this report Dr. Fewkes visited northwestern Texas and examined 
certain Indian remains along Wolf Creek, a tributary of the Canadian 
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Fic. 120.—Sandstone dyke, often mistaken for an artificial wall. Rockwall, 
Texas. 
River, said to be the location of the “ city.” Sites of aboriginal camp- 
ing places, probably of nomadic Indians, were found in this locality, 
but no remains of walls or pottery suggestive of Pueblo occupancy. 
There are no signs of a “ Buried City of the Panhandle ” in the region 
visited. 
Archeologists often have their attention called to sand dykes which 
are locally mistaken for artificial walls. The attention of Dr. ewkes 
was directed to what appeared to be a prehistoric artificial wall situ- 
ated in the suburbs of Rockwall, in Rockwall County, near Dallas, 
Texas. In order to determine its true character he visited this “* wall ”’ 
and found that it was not constructed by man, but belonged to those 
natural formations known to geologists as sand dykes. Its resem- 
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