ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 



characteristic building of the following stage, the Pueblo 

 II period. Besides the work in house remains, a number 

 of burial mounds were explored and many skeletons and 

 objects of the material culture of the people were obtained. 

 The latter include a large number and variety of pottery 

 specimens, many of which represent an entirely new fea- 

 ture in the ceramic industry, bone and stone implements, 

 and ornaments. The work as a whole gives a clear-cut 

 picture of the life and conditions prevailing at a time of 

 instability and disturbance due to an influx of new 

 peoples, with its attendant cultural transition. 



On the completion of the work along the Piedra River 

 one week was spent in a reconnaissance of the Governador 

 district in northern New Mexico. The Governador region 

 includes the Governador, Burns, La Jara, and Prances 

 Canyons. The latter are of special archeologieal and 

 ethnological interest, because it was to that section that 

 a large group of the Pueblo Indians from the Jemez vil- 

 lages fled after they had been disastrously defeated in the 

 Battle of San Diego Canyon during the month of June, 

 1696, by Spanish forces engaged in the reconquest of the 

 Southwest. The ruins of the dwellings built by tbe 

 refugees are in a good state of preservation and furnish 

 excellent information on the methods and styles of house 

 building prevalent at that time. At the close of the Gov- 

 ernador explorations Doctor Roberts returned to Wash- 

 ington, reaching there the middle of September. 



During the autumn illustrations were prepared to ac- 

 company a manuscript entitled "Recent Archeologieal 

 Developments in the Vicinity of El Paso, Tex.," which 

 was published in January, 1929, as volume 81, No. 7, 

 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Proof of 

 another paper entitled "Sbabik'eshchee Village, a Late 

 Basket Maker Site in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico," 

 was corrected, and this appeared in June, 1929, as Bulle- 

 tin 92 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Considerable time was spent in the laboratory of the 

 division of American archeology of the United States Xa- 



