THE EEMAINS OF CITIES OF THE STONE AGE. 



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Champlain and other early French explorers, that each 

 room was occupied by a family, while all the families 

 in the house had the cooking-place in common, and 

 cultivated their cornfields and went on hunting ex- 

 peditions in common. In such a community, accord- 

 ing to the ancient American idea of " women's 

 rights," all the women were related the husbands 

 might be, probably of necessity were, of different 

 tribes. In some of the Indian nations, indeed, com- 

 munal houses of even greater size and with several 



Pig. 20. PLAN OP HOCHELAGAN HOUSE FOE FIVE FAMILIES. (After Cartier.) 

 R. Rooms, each for one family. H. Common hall. F. Common fire. 



fires were used. The stone " pueblos " of the Moquis 

 are of this character. The winter houses of the Green- 

 landers are on the same plan, which Nilsson has shown 

 is that also of the " gallery graves " and gallery 

 houses of Sweden. Further, as Morgan has proved, 

 the so-called palaces of Mexico, Yucatan, and Peru, 

 were merely large communistic edifices, each occupied 

 by a whole tribe, whose members lived in common, 

 and were related by a bond of consanguinity depend- 



