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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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Men at work clearing^the rooms surrounding a kiva in a historic building at Pueblo SanCristobal. been done, the number would still have fallen far short of seventy, the total given by Coronado as inhabited in 1540. Doubtless Coronado's list included some of the villages located on the tributary streams such as Galisteo Creek, but there is still a margin to be accounted for and one is forced to believe that during the intervening centuries many village sites have been washed away or by some process obliterated. Such obliteration may explain also the apparent absence of village ruins at the southern end, that is, in the great Mesilla section of the valley, although we have here no less than 180,000 acres of bottom land suitable for cultivation. As for the presence of immense ruins distant from the rich bottom lands, the fact is not easily explained. It may be stated however that, contrary to the prevailing notion about the great heat and dryness of New Mexican climate, dry farming is possible in the region say from Gran Quivira north- ward. Besides it is conceivable that these distant villagers did cultivate lands on the river bottom.

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