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Excerpt from Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Vol. 5 The first year of this special study - 1913 - was directed particularly to the underground kivas, which in the four ruins then examined were found to exist under the shallow depressed area close at the southern side of the pueblos; partly filled by the wreckage of their own roofs and walls and of the front walls of their adjacent houses, and buried by the sand drift. These underground, circular, stone-walled and pilastered chambers all resembled kivas already known in some of the larger ruins of this district, in their recesses and pilasters, while those completely exposed showed a ventilator shaft, a deflector, a fire pit, and a door and underground passage leading upward from the kiva into the adjacent pueblo. The various bone and stone implements discovered were of the forms common in the larger and smaller ruins of other types in this district, while the pottery conformed to the type outlined by Fewkes as characteristic of the San Juan area. Details and illustrations of this study may be found in the paper referred to. As it seemed desirable to gather additional data over a still wider range, further field studies were made in the summer of 1915 which it is the purpose of this paper briefly to record. Three more ruins of the unit type were examined, lying many miles apart but all in sagebrush openings upon the great pinon, juniper, and sage clad, canyon-scored mesa, which on the borders of Colorado and Utah, slopes upward toward the McElmo canyon and Ute mountain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.