The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-30
PREHISTORIC CITY
FOUND IN ARIZONA
Discovery of Ancient Pueblo
Is Reported.

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ancient hill, city and fort Of the
prehistoric Pueblo Indians on Black
Mesa. Arizona, by the Rainbow
Bridge-Aonument Valley scientific
expedition was the most significant
md Of the expedition. according to
DR.. Charles del Norte Winning, field
director. who returned recently
from Arizona.
The Rainbow Bridge Monument
valley expedition numbered thirty
college professors and museum
technicians and forty undergradu-
ate and graduate students repre-
sentinG almost every university in
the country. 1t is a cooperative en-
terprise, each representative shar-
ing equally the expeditions ex-
penses. Ansel F. Hall, chief Of the
Held division of the national park
service, was supervisor.
City Difficult to Locate.
Black Mesa, which lies south Of
the Painted desert in Arizona. was
referred to by the Indians on the
Navajo reservation as the big
House." There were consistent re-
ports OF the city's existence among
the Indians, but for the past four
summers the expedition could not
locate the site.
There u q great possibility that
Black Mesa has been the cross
roads OF Northern and Southern
migration. The pottery and archi-
lecture unearthed there show def
nitely q fusion of two distinct
cultures" DR.. Winning declared.
DR.. Winning Is professor at New
York University's School of Com
merce.
Actuai excavation was not started
during the past summer because
the rainy season was about to set in
at the time Of discovery. Walls of
protective fort standing three to
twelve feet high and running twn
to three hundred yards in length
were found. In addition, clearly
defined walls Of approximately one
hundred rooms and much archaic
pottery were unearthed.
"A further study of the grounds
which the expedition will carry out
next summer will undoubtedly give
significant information as to the life
OF the people living at the time"
DR.. Winning said.
Artifacts In Abundance.
Unusual artifacts were found in
great abundance in burial ground
Of the Twelfth or Thirteenth century
at the base Of Black Mesa. The
site is located q few miles from
Kayenta, . trading post in North
astern Arizona. "Twenty-three
burials have already beei studied
and considerable data on Pueblo
cultures on Monument Valley have
been found,s the field director
pointed out.
Pottery jars in large numbers
also were found in the burials.
Many Of them appeared to have
been filled with food. The Pueblo
Indians buried food and certain i'm
plements of war, believing they
would need them in the next
world"
A large water jar. the most i'm
poi ldut piece VI pOtteTy IOunQ Dy
the expedition on the trip, is esti-
mated to be more than 1000 years
old. The jar, pieced together from
more than thirty fragments, is well
preserved and its decorations re-
veal the art OF ten centuries ago.
The artifact is now being studied
by Charles Amsden of the South
western Museum Of Los Angeles.
Well preserved skeleton remains
of human being who lived in the
Arizona cliffs more than 200 years
ago were found. They were located
in the cist Of a Pueblo Indian dwell
ing. The skeleton. probably male,
was pierced by a small wood shaft.
The skull of a phyposaur. q prehis-
toric animal somewhat like tn e
crocodile, which existed In the
southeastern United States m ny
millions Of years ago. was un-
earthed.