Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau, New MexicoU.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Počet stran: 55 |
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Strana 18
... height rise the wedge - like terminal buttes which define this great gap in the middle mesa . Toward the four ... feet . The front walls are from one to two feet thick . In some cases a little masonry has been used in the form of casing ...
... height rise the wedge - like terminal buttes which define this great gap in the middle mesa . Toward the four ... feet . The front walls are from one to two feet thick . In some cases a little masonry has been used in the form of casing ...
Strana 19
... height of thirty feet ( pl . v1 ) . These are popularly called " tent rocks . " They are full of caves , both natural and artificial , some of which have been utilized as human habitations . These dwellings are structurally identical ...
... height of thirty feet ( pl . v1 ) . These are popularly called " tent rocks . " They are full of caves , both natural and artificial , some of which have been utilized as human habitations . These dwellings are structurally identical ...
Strana 25
... feet in height are disclosed . Numerous small clan houses are scat- tered about near by . A few yards to the east is the hollow of a large kiva in which a fine pine tree is growing ( pl . VIII , b ) . Not far from this ruin are the ...
... feet in height are disclosed . Numerous small clan houses are scat- tered about near by . A few yards to the east is the hollow of a large kiva in which a fine pine tree is growing ( pl . VIII , b ) . Not far from this ruin are the ...
Strana 27
... Tall pines crown it above . The average depth of the Rito below both mesas is several hundred feet ; in places , perhaps as much as 500 or more . It is not properly a valley , since its greatest width hardly attains half a mile , but a ...
... Tall pines crown it above . The average depth of the Rito below both mesas is several hundred feet ; in places , perhaps as much as 500 or more . It is not properly a valley , since its greatest width hardly attains half a mile , but a ...
Strana 29
... size of 126 of them proved to be 4.3 by 2.7 meters ( 14 by 9 feet ) . Six estufas are visible ; four inside the ... height and in some places three and perhaps four . To the southeast of the ruin on the edge of the woods stand the ...
... size of 126 of them proved to be 4.3 by 2.7 meters ( 14 by 9 feet ) . Six estufas are visible ; four inside the ... height and in some places three and perhaps four . To the southeast of the ruin on the edge of the woods stand the ...
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Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau, New Mexico, Vydání 29,Vydání 31–32 Edgar Lee Hewett Úplné zobrazení - 1906 |
Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau, New Mexico, Vydání 29,Vydání 31–32 Edgar Lee Hewett Úplné zobrazení - 1906 |
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Strana 18 - ... two small canyons and the formerly intervening mesa. From the midst of this little park, roughly a mile square, a view of surpassing beauty is to be had. Half a mile to the south the huge mesa which is terminated by Rincon del Pueblo bounds the valley with a high unbroken line, perhaps 500 feet above the dry arroyo at the bottom.
Strana 41 - My attention was first called to the arcbaiology of the region by observing that the conic hills just mentioned appeared to be in many instances crowned with stone structures, which, on examination, proved to be ruined buildings. These are round or square, with rounded angles, and from 15 to 25 feet in diameter. The walls are...
Strana 16 - ... a considerable acreage of tillable land near by — far more than this small population would have utilized. The old trail across the neck of the mesa to the north is worn hip-deep in the rock, showing constant, long-continued use. I infer that these were the fields of not only the people of Navahu but also of the more populous settlements beyond the great mesa to the north where tillable land is wanting. The Tewa Indians assert that the name ' ' Navahu ' ' refers to the large area of cultivated...