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ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. 



(ETH. ANN. 13 



The rum described ou page 200 aud a.ssigned to tlie flr.st subclass 

 occurs about half a mile north of this limestone bill, on the opposite 

 side of the river. This small ruin, like all the smaller ruins described, 

 was built of river bowlders, or river bowlders with occasional slabs 

 of sandstone or limestone, while the ruin last described consists 



exclusively of limestone 



slabs. This difference is 

 explained, however, by 

 the character of the sites 

 occui)ied by the several 

 ruins. The limestone hill 

 upon which the ruin 

 under discussion is 

 situated is an anomalous 

 feature, and its occur- 

 rence here undoubtedly 

 determined the location 

 of this village. It is 

 diflicult otherwise to un- 

 derstand the location of 

 this cluster of rooms, for 

 they command no out- 

 look over tillable land, 

 although the view up and 

 down the river is exten- 

 sive. This cluster, which 

 is the largest in size for 

 many miles up and down 

 the river, may have been 

 the parent pueblo, occu- 

 pying somewhat the 

 same relation to the 

 smaller villages that Zuiii 

 occupies to the summer 

 farming settlements of 

 Nutria, Pescado, and Ojo 

 Calieute; and doubtless 

 the single-room remains, 



-Sketch map of ruin 9^ miles above Fossil creek. which OCCUr aboVC and 



below the cluster on mesa benches and near tillable tracts, were con- 

 nected with it. This ruin is an example of the second subclass, or 

 villages located on defensive sites, which merges into ruins of the first 

 subclass, or villages on bottom lands, through villages like that located 

 at the mouth of the East Verde and at the mouth of Fossil creek. 



On the eastern side of the Verde, just below the mouth of Beaver 

 creek, opposite and a little above Verde, occurs one of the best exam- 

 ples to be found in this region of a large village located on a defensive 



Fig. 283.- 



