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doubt used as storerooms for the food supi:)ly. A 

 number of rooms devoted to the ^nnding of corn have 

 boxes made of slabs of stone in which the grinding was 

 done on metates as at present in the Southwest. One 

 room has four such boxes side by side with the metates 

 still in place. There are many fireplaces in an open 



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Palace. 



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plaza in the middle of the village where much of the 

 cooking was probably done. 



There are twenty-three kivas, situated in a court, 

 most of them having their roofs level with the floors of 

 the ordinary rooms of the first story. To give some of 

 them the required depth the solid rock was excavated 

 for several feet. 



