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been used to fill iu the large iatersticcs. Figure2J)0(i). 221),whichshow.s 

 a storage cist attached to the group of cavate lodges, marked D on the 

 map (plate xxv), exhibits the same excessive use of adobe or mud 

 plastering. At several other points in the area shown on this map there 

 are short walls, sometimes inside the lodges, sometimes outside. In 



Fjg. 301.— Walleil Iront cavate lodges. 



all cases, however, they are rudely constructed and heavily plastered 

 with mud; in short, the masonry of the cavate lodges exhibits an 

 ignorance fully equal to that of the stone villages, while the execution 

 is, if anything, ruder. It is singular that, notwithstanding the exces- 

 sive u.se of mud mortar and mud plastering in the few walls that are 

 found there, such plastering was almost never used on the walls in the 



