58 CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
rooms being in one,—and always near a 
fire-place. The postures of these skele¬ 
tons are as various as it is possible for 
the human body to assume. They are 
found kneeling, stretched out, sometimes 
with their locked hands over their heads, 
on their sides, and, again, with their chil¬ 
dren in their arms, hardly any two being 
alike in the same house or series of 
houses, where they were united into a 
pueblo. Now in the whole study of sep¬ 
ulture it has been almost universally 
found that even among the lowest sav¬ 
ages as well as among the most civilized 
peoples, whatever form of burial is 
adopted, no matter how absurd from our 
point of view, it is uniform in the main 
points, allowing, of course, slight devia¬ 
tions for caste or rank. The positions 
of the skeletons in their own houses do 
