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the mountains. The fields which probahly furnished the villagers 

 well-watered agricultural areas are situated in the valley below. 



The excavation showed that there had been two occupations on the 

 site. In several places the remains of earlier old walls show beneath 

 the present walls, indicating that the first and second buildings had 



Fig. 134. — Ruin at Llano, Taos Valley. 



totally different ground plans. All of the walls (fig. 134) were made 

 of a mixture of wood ash, small stones (about the size of pebbles ordi- 

 narily found in gravel), and adobe which when exposed to the air 

 becomes very hard. The walls of the second occupation are not as 

 well made as those of the first, but the floors of both resemble those 

 of the older villages still inhabited, where the blood of animals was 

 used to give them temper and polish. 



