Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-28
RACE ANTEDATES
CLIFF JEWELLERS
Harvard University Explorers
Make Interesting Discovery
in Northeastern Arizona.
RELICS ARE WELL PRESERVED
Ancient People Were intermediate in
Development Between Basket
Makers and. the Pueblo
Cliff DWeiIers.

Cambridge, Mass. Explorations
made by the, Peabody museum of
Harvard in the Marsh pass region of
northeastern Arizona have resulted in
the discovery of the remains of an
ancient people who once Inhabited
that section and were intermediate in
development between the basket
makers, the earliest race known to
have lived in that region, and the
Pueblo cliff dwellers, whose remark
able stone villages along the Arizona
cliffs have attracted widespread i'll
tereSt
The Harvard expeditions to this
semi-desert region, over 100 miles
from the nearest railroad, were be
gun in 1914 by A. " Kidder and Sam
uel j. Guernsey of the Peabody MI
scum staff, and were later continued
under the sole direction of Mr.. Guern-
sey. Prior, to 1914, commercial col
lectOrs had found traces Of the bas-
ket makers, but facts about these
earliest people of the region had never
been secured by trained archaeolOgists
until the Harvard expeditions began.
Preceded the Cliff jewellers.
These expeditions have not--enly
contributed a mass Of information
concerning the basket makers 'butilfow
show the existence Of a people who.
followed the basket makers in poiRt
of time, but preceded the cliff dwellers.
The pOst-basket makers, as these
newly discovered people are called,
resemble the basket makers in many
particulars, but were clearly in later
stage of development. The basket
makers had no permanent dwellings,
whereas these later people had stone
houses in caves and In the open. They
also had pottery, crude in some re-
Spects, but with the beginnings Of
decoration. and some of ii was fired.
This is the earliest pottery known to
have been made in the southwest.
Instead of burying their dead. in
caves, as did the basket makers, they
seem to have lived in the caves and
to have conducted their burials in the
open. Their more settled life is at
tributed to their success in agricul-
ture. They grew corn or primitive
variety.
Skulls Long Instead of Round
Skeletons show that both the basket
makers and these successors had rath-
er long skulls, whereas the cliff dwell
ers who followed them were round
headed race and always had the back
of the skull artificially, flattened by
the hard board headrest Of the era
dies in which the babies were placed.
The relationship of these various
peoples is still matter of doubt. 1t
is believed the poSt-basket makers
probably were descendants of the bas-
ket makers, but whether they in turn
were ancestors of the cliff jewellers is
not certain. 1t seems doubtful on ac-
count of the aiarked difference in the
shape of the head, even aside from
artificial fiattening
The basket makers had dogs The
mummified remains of two were found
Jul hS tiiC iidi 'diu eApiol dtlois anu
are now on exhibition at the Peabody
museum along with quantity of
other objects illustrative of basket
maker life.
Many of the objects found In the
dry caves in this region are in an ey-
traOrdinary state of preservation, on
account Of the dryness of the climate,
despite their great age.
How many thousand years ago
these primitive people lived In north
eastern Arizona is unknown, or how
they were related to the Indians Of
the present day. The scientific study
of the region is still in its early stages.
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