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wanting. Striking differences in the 
later occupants of the cliff dwellings 
crania of earlier and 
are cited to prove 
early occupancy by a distinct race 
that equally striking differences 
, but craniologists observe 
exist between tribes living 
ide by side at the present day. It nay be safely said that 
up to the present tine no evidence of the former general occu¬ 
pancy of the region by peoples other than those now classed 
as pueblo Indians has been furnished. Among the more im¬ 
portant examples of the cliff ruins are the Cliff Palace, in 
Walnut Canyon, Mesa Verde; Casa Blanca, Canyon de Chefly; and 
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Montezuma Castle, on Beaver creek, Arizona. Intimately as- 
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sociated with these cliff dwellings and situated on the pla¬ 
teaus immediately above or at the base of the cliffs below, 
are ruins of pueblos in every way identical with the pueblos 
in the open country (see Pueblos ). Among works treating of 
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the cliff dwellings are, Simpson, Sen. Ex. Doc. 64, 1st Sess. 
31st Cong.; Stevenson, Bull. Am, Geog. soc., 1386; Holmes 
