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TWO SUMMERS WORK IN PUEBLO RUINS 



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but the skd'letou was too poorly preserved to add to the coUectious. 

 There is a hirge nii)i neai- Adainana station, aud others in the Petrified 

 Forest reservation. 



FOUR-MILE RUIN 



(tEneral Plan 



Tliis ruin is situated 4 miles from Snowflake, and about 2 miles 

 from Taylor, Arizona, and is 07ie of the larii;est in the vicinity. It 

 had never been visited prior to the author's work there in 1S!)7, and 

 no specimens from this locality are known besides those which he 

 collected. 



The ruin is situated on a lihiff overlookintj a tributarv of the Little 



Colorado called Pinedale creek. One end of the ancient puel)lo over- 

 looks the stream; the other extends alouij a low crest at ri!>ht angles 

 to its banks. On the northern and southern .sides there are narrow 

 plains, that on the south being apparently composed of alluvium 

 brought down and deposited bj- the stream, or washed from higher 

 neighboring hills bj' torrents of rain, which are often verj' violent 

 in this region. The general form of the ruin is irregularly rectan- 

 gular, with no well-defined evidences of a central plaza in the western 

 part. The eastern region, however, has a flat toj) with scattered 

 rooms, and was evidently well situated for ceremonial dances or other 

 gatherings. 



The larger population lived in the western part of Four-mile i-uin, 

 and probably the eastern region was not permanently inliabited. 



