Word: puebloed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There it connects with the Denver & Rio Grande Western, which it controls. By way of the subsidiary it joins (at Denver) the Burlington (Mr. James' Northern Pacific and Great Northern control the Burlington) and (at Pueblo, Colo.) the Missouri Pacific, the Burlington's transcontinental rival. Mr. James also owns a large share of the Southern Pacific...
...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...
...Nevada, an expedition from the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), called in by Governor James Graves Scrugham to examine the great cliff city (Pueblo Grande de Nevada) which he had discovered personally (TIME, March 23, 1925), threw up sand all winter over a stretch six miles long, baring abodes ranging from scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother...
...know practically nothing about the Indians whose pueblo towns we are excavating. In the northern part of the state there are living descendants of the ancient tribes, but the southern peoples have apparently passed out of existence entirely. From what we have been able to glean of their life, it appears that they were chiefly agriculturists, instead of wandering hunters like most of their contemporary aborigines...
...explorations by the Museum in the southwest were under the general direction of Dr. Kidder, Curator of Southwestern American Archaeology. Mr. C. B. Cosgrave continued the excavations begun last year of a pueblo in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. In the pueblo proper and in the plaza connected there with 41 rooms were cleared of debris and soil which filled and covered them. The number of burials unearthed this season was 254. In addition to the usual types of implements and ornaments common in the region, 178 bowls and other forms of pottery vessels were recovered...