Smyrna times., 1937-01-07
ANCIENT CITY
DUG IN ARIZONA
Discovery of a Prehistoric
Pueblo Reported Found
By Expedition
ARTIFACTS AMBUNDANT

New YOrk.-Ihe discovery OIL an
ancient hill, city and fort OF the
prehistoric Pueblo Indians on Black
Mesa, Arizona. by the Rainbow
Bridge Monument Valley scientific
expedition was the most significant
find 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 nd museum
technicians and forty undergradu-
ate and graduate students repre-
senting almost every university in
the country. 1t is cooperative en-
terprise, each representative shar-
ing equally the expeditions ex-
penses. Ansel F. Hall, chief of the
field 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 is 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 a fusion of two distinct
cultures" DR.. Winning declared.
DR.. Winning is professor at New
York University's School Of Com
merce.
Actual excavation was not started
during the past summer because
the rainy season was about to set in
at the time of discovery. Walls Of
a protective fort standing three to
twelve feet high and running two
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 a burial ground
Of the Twelfth or Thirteenth century
at the base Of Black Mesa. The
site is located a few miles from
Kayenta, trading post in North
e aster Arizona. Twenty-Five
burials have already been studied
and considerable data on Pueblo
cultures in Monument valley have
been found" the field director
pointed out.
Pottery jars in large numbers
also were found in the burials.
Many of them appeared to have
been filed 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
portant piece of pottery found by
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 800 years
ago we're found. They were located
in the cist of Pueblo Indian dwell
ing. The skeleton, probably male.
was pierced by a small wood shaft.