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seem to indicate different stages in con>triiction;d exi)erience, they 

 could he and were found in the same cave. In such oases there was 

 nothing' to suggest any considerable lapse of time between the ])eriods 

 represented by the successive years of occu])ancy ; neither could it be 

 determined from the refuse in and al)out the dwellings that more than 

 one ]jeo]jk- had taken ])art in their construction. 



From the minor antifjuities collected it does not a])])ear that the de- 

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



Fk;. 70. — Masonry walls Iniilt ahove the ruins of a circular kiva. previ- 

 ously destroyed bj' tire. I he banquette or bench surrounding the room 

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

 wall posts and one roof support. 



yon differed essentially from that of other primitive peo])les farther 

 to the north.' The ])ottery. generall}-. is of a type closely related to the 

 ])re-]'ueblo ])eo]jles 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 exam])le. Wooden agricultural im])lements. 

 basketry, cotton cloth and other objects commonly found in cliff' 

 ruins of the southwest are likewise of the well-known F'ueblo type. 

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

 the belief that in western Ctah there is certain evidence of a ])re- 

 historic ])eo])le which originated some ])lace in the nrjrthwest and 



' Smith. Misc. Coll., \'o\. 66, Xo. 3, 1915; \'ol. 66, Xo. 17, 1916: \'ol. 68, 

 Xo. 12, 1917. 



