Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dogs were acquired by Dr. S. J. Guernsey, Assistant Director of the Peabody Museum, in 1923, while visiting the state of Arizona at the head of an expedition to the cliff caves of the so-called basket maker region. On the Kayenta Plateau, near the famous Rainbow National Ridge, the expedition came upon a great cave. Working their way into the sandy cavern the University explorers entered the moulding dwelling and discovered two perfectly preserved dogs and two Indians, almost buried out of sight in the soft dry sand. It was evident that these Indians and their hunting dogs, since...
Perhaps unfortunately for present knowledge, Grijalva decided not to land, but modern archaeologists believe that that last "city or town" was Tulum (or Tuloom), the finest ruined city now known on the east coast of Yucatan, whose white walls top a cliff directly over the restless waters of the Caribbean...
...high cliff overlooking the Caribbean Sea are the ruins of the ancient city of Tuloom. This sky is seldom visited by scientists and it is reported that ruins of still older cities may be found behind...
...story of a couple of unhappy marriages. One of the wives and one of the husbands were in love but were impeded, chiefly through their own stupidity, from getting married. Therefore reels of unhappiness until the other wife rode a spritely horse and the other husband fell off a cliff...
...Nevada, Governor James Graves Scrugham reported having enlisted capital for continued excavations in "Pueblo Grande de Nevada," the pueblo cliff city eight miles long which he discovered personally last year and intends making into a state park. Some 50 of the 10,000 or more graves have been opened, containing corn, weapons, decorations and dice, dating (by estimate) to 5,000 B. C. Hard by the city is a turquoise mine. Some of the skeletons are gigantic...