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exist also dugouts or cliff-houses suggesting- habitations in the clift"s 

 below. 



Several great houses of the Hovenweep belong to a prehistoric 

 type distinct from puel)los, for nothing similar to the multichambered 

 " great house '' is found in modern pueblos, although the one- 

 chambered tower may be the same as extramural circular kivas in 





Fig. 132. — Model of Unit Type House. 



the Rio Grande pueblos. Whether towers are one or many cham- 

 bered, in form circular, oval, D-shaped, or scjuare buildings, isolated, 

 or united to pueblos, or whether towers and great houses belong to 

 the same type, is not evident. These great houses or so-called 

 towers with several rooms could hardly have the same use as cir- 

 cular or square towers with one room. They do not suggest habita- 

 tions, and the number of workmen necessary to build them would be 



