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seem to indicate different stages in constructional experience, they 

 could be and were found in the same cave. In such cases there was 

 nothing to suggest any considerable lapse of time between the periods 

 represented by the successive years of occupanc}' ; neither could it be 

 determined from the refuse in and about the dwellings that more than 

 one i^eople had taken part in their construction. 



From the minor antiquities collected it does not appear that the de- 

 gree of culture reached bv the ancient inhabitants of Cottonwood Can- 



Fi(.. 70. — .\la^lonry walls Iniilt aliosc the ^uin^ nf a circular kua, previ- 

 ously destroyed by fire. The banquette or bench surrounding the room 

 will be noted in the foreground ; also, the charred fragments of several 

 wall posts and one roof support. 



yon differed essentially from that of other primitive peoples farther 

 to the north.^ The pottery, generally, is of a type closely related to the 

 pre-Pueblo peoples south and east of the Rio Colorado, and indicates 

 a higher degree of experience than that noted among the ruins at 

 Beaver or Paragonah, for example. Wooden agricultural implements, 

 basketry, cotton cloth and other objects commonly found in cliff 

 ruins of the southwest are Hkewise of the well-known Pueblo type. 

 The results of these recent excavations tend to confirm, therefore, 

 the belief that in western Utah there is certain evidence of a pre- 

 historic people which originated some place in the northwest and 



'Smith. Misc. Coll., Vol. 66, No. 3, 1915; Vol. 66, No. 17, 1916; Vol. 

 No. 12, 19x7. 



