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Cosmos Mindeleff. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE CLIFF RUINS. OF CANYON DE CHELLY, ARIZONA
By Cosmos Mindeleff. INTRODUCTION. HISTORY AND LITERATURE
GEOGRAPHY
CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTIONS. RUINS OF THE PUEBLO REGION
I—OLD VILLAGES ON OPEN SITES
II—HOME VILLAGES ON BOTTOM LANDS
IV—CLIFF OUTLOOKS OR FARMING SHELTERS
DETAILS. SITES
MASONRY
OPENINGS
ROOFS, FLOORS, AND TIMBER WORK
STORAGE AND BURIAL CISTS
DEFENSIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE EXPEDIENTS
KIVAS OR SACRED CHAMBERS
CHIMNEY-LIKE STRUCTURES
TRADITIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Footnotes
INDEX
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Cosmos Mindeleff
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The plateau country is not a smooth and level region, as its name might imply; it is extremely rugged, and the topographic obstacles to travel are greater than in many wild mountain regions. It is a country of cliffs and canyons, often of considerable magnitude and forming a bar to extended progress in any direction. The surface is generally smooth or slightly undulating and apparently level, but it is composed of a series of platforms or mesas, which are seldom of great extent and generally terminate at the brink of a wall, often of huge dimensions. There are mesas everywhere; it is the mesa country.
Although the strata appear to be horizontal, they are slightly tilted. The inclination, although slight, is remarkably persistent, and the thickness of the strata remains almost constant. The beds, therefore, extend from very high altitudes to very low ones, and often the formation which is exposed to view at the summit of an incline is lost to view after a few miles, being covered by some later formation, which in turn is covered by a still later one. Each formation thus appears as a terrace, bounded on one side by a descending cliff carved out of the edges of its own strata and on the other by an ascending cliff carved out of the strata which overlie it. This is the more common form, although isolated mesas, bits of tableland completely engirdled by cliffs, are but little less common.
