El Palacio Vol 8 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...has a more gentle slope, is slightly timbered, and nowhere presents the long, continuous, vertical escarpments seen on the northern wall. "The ancient remains in the Rito consist of four community houses in the valley and one on the mesa rim near the southern brink of the cafion, and a series of cliff-houses extending for a distance of a mile and a quarter along the base of the northern wall. These cliff-houses are of the excavated type sometimes known as "cavate lodges," but this term is one that sould be rejected from the nomenclature of Southwester archaeology. The excavated cliff-house is as much a true cliff-dwelling as is the pueblo built in the natural cave. The true character of the so-called "cavate lodge" has not been fully understood. Some of these excavated rooms have been used as domiciles independently of any construction upon the talus against the cliff, but through the entire Pajarito region, where this type of cliff-dwelt ling culture reaches its culmination, the excavated rooms were not generally used as independent domiciles; they served more often as back rooms of the houses built upon the sloping talus against the cliff wall. In the Rito de los Frijoles thirteen of these talus villages were identified and sufficlent excavation done to lay bare foundation Walls establishing the existence of houses of from two to four terraces built against the cliff. "The principal focus of population in the Rito de los Frijoles was the great community house of Tyuonyi. This was a terraced structure, roughly circular in form. It was built of blocks of the volcanic tufa, and the amount of debris indicates that it was a threestory pueblo. Unlike the majority of the large community houses of this...