The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-04-11
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 DWelIers.

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 jewellers, whose remark
able stone villages along the Arizona
cliffs have attracted widespread in
terest.
The Harvard expeditions to this
semi-desert region, over 100 miles
from the nearest railroad, were be-
gun In 1914 by A. V. Kidder and Sam
uel j. Guernsey Of the Peabody mu-
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 DweIIers.
These expeditions have not only
| contributed a mass Of information
concerning the basket makers but now
show the existence Of a people who
| followed the basket makers in point
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 a later
stage of development. The basket
makers had no permanent dwellings
whereas these later people had stone
houses in caves and I'm the open. They
also had pottery, crude in some re
spects, but with the beginnings OF
decoration, and some of 1t was fired
This is the earliest pottery known tt
have been made in the southwest.
Instead Of burying their dead IL
caves, as did the basket makers, the.
seem to have lived In the caves ant
to have conducted their burials in tn
open. Their more settled life is at
tributed to their success In agricul
ture. They grew corn OF primitiv
variety.
Skulls Long Instead Of Round.
Skeletons show that both the baske
makers and these successors had rath
er long skulls, whereas the cliff dwell
ers who followed them were a round
headed race and always had the bac
of the skull artifcially flattened b
the hard board headrest Of the Gre
dies In which the babies were placed
The relationship of these variou
peoples is still a matter of doubt.
is believed the post-basket maker
probably were descendants Of the ba'
ket makers, but whether they in tur
were ancestors Of the cliff jewellers
not certain. It seems doubtful on a.
count of the marked difference in tn
shape Of the head, even aside frol
~artificial flattening.
The basket makers had dogs. III
mummified remains Of two were foun
during the Harvard explorations an
are now on exhibition at the Peabod
museum along with quantity
other objects illustrative Of bask'
maker life.
Many of the objects found In IL
dry caves In this region are In an e.
traordinary state Of preservation,
account Of the dryness Of the climat
despite their great age.
How many thousand years al
these primitive people lived In mort
eastern Arizona is unknown, or no
they We're related to the Indians
the present day. The scientific stut
Of the region is still in its early stage