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exist also dugouts or clilt-houses suggesting habitations in the chlifs 

 below. 



Several great houses of the Hovenweep belong to a prehistoric 

 type distinct from pueblos, 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. — Mfiflel ot' Unit Tyiie Hduse. 



the Rio < irande pueblos. W liclher lowers are one oi^ man\ cliani- 

 bered, in form circular. o\-al. l)->ha]H'd. or s(|uare liuildings. isolated. 

 or imited to ])Uc])lo>. or whether towers and great hou>e> ])elong to 

 the same type. i> not e\idenl. The-e great liou^es 1 ir M)-called 

 towers with several room-- could liardK' ha\e the same use as cir- 

 cular or sf|uare lowers with one room. I he\ do imi suggest habila- 

 tions, and tlic number of workmen necessar\ lo Imild iliem would Ik- 



