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of the distribution of aboriL^inal culture characteristics of the Alesa 

 \'erde National Park. 



Information has been brought from time to time to the attention of 

 the Smithsonian Institution that there exists in the northern part of 

 Texas a large ruin known as the lluried City of the Panhandle. The 

 name suggests that this may be a community dwelling, and it has 

 occurred to several students that this " city," if such exists, marks the 

 eastern extension of the Pueblo area. In order to determine the truth 

 of this report Dr. Fewkes visited northwestern Texas and examined 

 certain Indian remains along Wolf Creek, a tributary of the Canadian 





Fig. I20. — Sandstone dyke, often mistaken for an artitkial wall. Rockwall, 



Texas. 



River, said to be the location of the " city." Sites of aboriginal camp- 

 ing places, probably of nomadic Indians, were found in this locality, 

 but no remains of walls or pottery suggestive of I'ueblo occujiancy. 

 There are no signs of a " Buried City of the Panhandle " in the region 

 visited. 



Archeologists often have their attention called to sand dykes which 

 are locally mistaken for artificial walls. The attention of Dr. Fewkes 

 was directed to what a])peared to be a prehistoric artificial wall situ- 

 ated in the suburbs of Rockwall, in Rockwall County, near Dallas, 

 Texas. In order to determine its true character he visited this " wall " 

 and found that it was not constructed by man. but belonged to those 

 natural formations known to geologists as sand dykes. Its resem- 



