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PREHISTORIC RUIXS IX SOUTHWESTERX COLORADO AXD 

 SOUTHEASTERN UTAH 



The country south and southwest of Dolores, Colorado, contains 

 many evidences of a considerable population in prehistoric times. The 

 most striking of these evidences are mounds of stones, remains of 

 well-constructed Iniildings, the standing walls of which sometimes 

 rise many feet aljove the surface. Some of these remains are men- 

 tioned or described by Xewberry, Jackson, Holmes. Morgan, Morley, 

 Moorehead, Prudden, and Kidder, but a still greater numljer remain 

 unrecorded, although reported bv cowboys and sheep herders, who. 



Fig. 112. — Lone Pine House, cliff-dwelliny near Dolores. Photograph by 



J. Wirsula. 



wliilc ]Kiying only casual attention to them, know tlieir sites and some- 

 thing of their superficial characters. 



The growing interest in the anti(|uities of this part of Colorado, 

 especially those of the Mesa \'erde National Park, not far distant, 

 has stimulated a desire to investigate other ancient rtiins in the 

 neighborhood, and with that end in view Or. J. Walter Fewkes, 

 ethnologist, devoted several weeks of the autumn of kjij to an 

 archeological examination of this region. lie visited all ruins pre- 

 viously recorded and was able to add several others to the list, witliout 

 covering more than a part of the extensive territory. 



The main object of this work, all too inadetiuate on account of 

 limited time, was to gather facts bearing on the distribution of pre- 

 historic inhabitants in southwestern Colorado and their cultural rela- 



