Prehistoric Indians of the SouthwestWormington, H. M. (Hannah Marie)
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Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest
Wormington, H. M. (Hannah Marie)
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Southwest, New -- Antiquities
PECOS STATE MONUMENT.
Ruins of the great pueblo, finally abandoned in 1838, and of the
partially-restored Spanish mission of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Close to Highway U. S.-85, about twenty-five miles southeast
of Santa Fe, near modern town of Pecos, New Mexico.
GRAN QUIVIRA NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Ruins of the pueblo and mission of Humanas, abandoned about 1675. No
museum; no accommodations. By a poor road twenty-five miles south of
Mountainair, New Mexico, which is on Highway U. S.-60.
ABO and QUARAI STATE MONUMENTS.
Sister missions to Humanas, with extensive unexcavated pueblo ruins. No
museums. Close to U. S.-60 and Mountainair, New Mexico.
The Salado Complex
TONTO NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Two fourteenth century cliff-dwellings high in a small canyon
overlooking Roosevelt Lake and the Tonto Basin. These well-preserved
ruins have yielded fine and unusual archaeological material: the
striking Salado polychrome pottery, a variety of expertly-made cotton
textiles, even a lot of lima beans. Very small museum exhibit. No
accommodations at the monument. Located near Roosevelt, Arizona, and the
Apache Trail (State Highway 88).
CASA GRANDE NATIONAL MONUMENT.
A unique great adobe structure, sole survivor of the large pueblo-like
towers and compounds built by the Salado in the Gila Basin in the
fourteenth century. The site includes several adobe compounds as well as
the Casa Grande itself, and also earlier _Hohokam_ remains—unexcavated
ball-courts and pit-houses. Small museum. On State Highway 87 close to
Coolidge, Arizona.
PUEBLO GRANDE CITY PARK.
A complex mound, partially excavated, of the late period in the Phoenix
area. On E. Washington Avenue, Phoenix.
Sinagua Sites
WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Large and small pueblos of 1100-1300 and earlier pit-houses; several
Anasazi sites as well as Sinagua—the frontier between these two cultures
was not the Little Colorado, but lay some distance west into the Wupatki
area, and varied from time to time. Still other cultural influences are
observed. One unique feature is a masonry-walled ball-court beside
Wupatki Pueblo and near the monument headquarters, fifteen miles east of
U. S.-89 and forty-five miles from Flagstaff, Arizona. No museum. No
accommodations at the monument.
WALNUT CANYON NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Very small cliff-dwellings in sandstone ledges of a narrow chasm twelve
miles east of Flagstaff, not far from Highway 66. No exhibits installed
in Museum. No accommodations at the monument.
TUZIGOOT NATIONAL MONUMENT.
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