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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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RUINS OF PREHISTORIC NEW MEXICO 81 the ruins, so that although the culti- vated fields can no longer be dis- cerned, we may be reasonably certain that the inhabitants subsisted main- ly by the cultivation of the soil. Incidental to the expedition's main work in the Galisteo region, two weeks were given to the excava- tion of the historically famous ruin of Kotyiti on Potrero Viejo, a few miles west of the Rio Grande in the latitude of Santa Fe. Potrero Viejo is a high, steep-sided mesa spur, a strong nat- ural fortress. It shows signs of hav- ing been occupied once in very ancient times, but Kotyiti itself was a village or temporary refuge built shortly after the Indian rebellion of 16S0 to be destroyed by the reconquering Spaniards in 1693. Its excavation was undertaken partly to verify Spanish documentary history and partly also because it was possible to get here a glimpse of the conditions of pueblo life at a given and known instant of time. The entire ruin was cleared. It con- tained one hundred and thirty-six rather large living rooms and two estufas. The chief thing of interest learned from the excavation here was the fact that the Indians in the absence of the Spaniards made a fair success of smelting cop- per ore. This art was of course not of native origin but had been acquired in connection with Spanish mining operations.
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Doorway connecting interior roonis at Pueblo San Cristobal. This is the form of door in general use in all the pueblos of the region

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