MINDELEFF] OUTLOOKS ON RESTRICTED AREAS 149 
Near the edges the rock becomes bare again, and is 20 to 30 feet high, 
descending sheer or with an overhang to the bottoms or to the stream 
bed. On the western side, facing north, the ruin illustrated occurs. 
It is a mere cubby hole, and was evidently located for the area of cul- 
tivable land which lies before it, and which it almost completely com- 
mands. The cavity is about 12 feet above the ground and appears to 
have been divided by cross 
walls into three rooms, two 
of which were quite small. 
The back room was small, 
dark, and not large enough 
to contain a human body un- 
less it was carefully packed 
in, and at various points along 
the back wall there are seeps 
of water. The interior of the 
little room was very wet and 
moldy at the time when it 
was examined, in winter, but 
in the summer time is prob- 
ably dry enough. 
The masonry is fair and 
the surface is finished with plaster. The open space in front of the 
small back room and the outer wall of the room itself are much black- 
ened by smoke, as though the inhabitant lived here and used the small 
room only to store his utensils and implements, A small room on the 
east must have been used for a similar purpose. Both of these rooms 
were entered through narrow doorways opening on the principal space. 
The site is an ideal one for a lookout, but not well suited for a habita- 
tion. Plate Liv shows its character. 
Cliff outlooks are often found on sites whose restricted areas pre- 
clude all possibility that they formed parts of larger settlements since 
obliterated. The ruin just described is an example. Another instance 

Fic. 58—Ground plan of outlooks in a cleft. 


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Fic. 59—Plan of a single-room outlook. 
which occurs in Del Muerto is shown in figure 58, Here a deep cleft 
in the rock was partly occupied by two or three rooms. There was 
room for more, but apparently no more were built. There was not 
room, however, for even a small village. There are several other 
examples in the canyon almost identical with these, but this type is 
not nearly so abundant as the succeeding. Figure 59 is a plan of a 
