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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (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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86 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL of cooperation in digging and main- taining irrigation ditches would have been practicable. Again, the Pueblos may have been hard pressed by en- croaching nomads, and in that way compelled to group together for mutual protection and to build villages that were in reality great fortresses of no mean order. An examination of the accompany- ing illustrations will perhaps give a bet- ter general idea of the essential nature of these fortresses than any amount of verbal description. The ground plan and the restoration are especially illu- minating. Stated in the simplest terms, the Aztec pueblo consists of three build- ings joined in such a way as to enclose three sides of a rectangular court. This court faces approximately south and is enclosed by a curving wall, which in this particular case has been expanded so as to accommodate a row of small rooms. The only entrance to the for- tress, as far as we at present know, led through a door in this wall and was presumably closed and barred at night as well as in time of trouble. The guard, or at any rate the defenders, we may imagine to have mounted this wall ^" L 1 t—— U- \ I" "■ii j— —I p- ...-4--!f' -.■ i i I :^5?£i£„'. 0 ._!. J'/' ~\/ 'i— iiv ■ KM I V I I ^K A ■ .L_.L. ::b I I 111' 1 1 U—1- 1 1 — t— 1 1 1 —i- —1-- 1 _i_ 1 1 1 -H 1 1 1 1 _j- -+- 1 -1
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Ground plan of the Aztec ruin as apparent before excavations were begun in July, 1916. The numbered rooms with shaded or solid walls are those cleared by the Mus«im Expedition. It may be noted that the long walls of the west wing and the cross walls of the north wing join exactly, as if this portion of the village had been planned and built at the same time. The east wing, on the other hand, shows irregularities in that its long partition walls do not meet the cross walls of the north wing, and also in that this building does not appear to have been completed at the south end. This last peculiarity was probably due to the presence at this spot of an older house which was partially incorporated in the great pueblo

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