Expert Traces Pueblos
Back to 1100 A. D.
Age of Ruins in New Mexico
Found by Tree-Ring
Count, He Claims
(Bv The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15, — Recent
excavation of several huge pueblos
in the northern Rio Grande basin
of New Mexico date some of the
buildings to about 110 A. D., by tree
ring count. Dr. Jesse Logan Nus
baum, director,of the Laboratory ol
Anthropology in Santa Fe, reported
at the American Museum of Natur
al History.
Dr Nusbaum based his estimate or
the . inspection of cross-sections ol
charred beams unearthed from 11
sites in the Santa Fe area. He saic
the method of study by matchinj
overlapping tree patterns followec
thjL first established in 1929 in th<
“Flagstaff sequence” of the Coloradt
plateau. The Tennessee valley au
thority, according to Dr. Nusbaum
is similarity collecting ancient cabir
log samples in an effort to recon
struct its pre-historic mysteries
Three Kivas Found
Three kivas, or ceremonial sane
tuaries, have been unearthed with
in the city limits of Santa Fe, ir
the arroyo negro, a pueblo of 51
rooms, the earliest ruin in the draii
age basin to be scientifically classi
fied. Santa Fe and St. Augustine
Florida, are presumably the two ole
est communities to be settled by in
vaders in the United States.
The archeological remains nex
examined were the hondo or deej
arroyo, four miles south of Santi
Fe, which exemplifies the transitior
between what the excavator call:
pueblo number two and three types
The third site, pueblo pindi, oi
turkey house five miles below the
city, was the most, completely un
covered. It disclosed 200 one
story rooms and three sanctuaries,
the remains according to Dr. Nus
baum, of an original three-story edi
fice of 1000 rooms, probably built
just prior to the Spanish invasion.
The digging party found numerous
small enclosures, where he said the
early Indians domesticated their tur
keys.
Spanish Design
The last place excavated to date,
lost aguages, or water tanks, 20
miles west of Santa Fe, revealed
pueblo architecture contemporary
with Spanish conquistador design.
Three stages of building material
were to be found in the various
sites—first cobblestone and mud,
ithen “stratoplastic” adobe or pud
dled walls, and finally adobe brick,
i Unlike the clifT dwellers, Dr. Nus
.: baum explained, the Pueblo river
! basin inhabitants huddled together
because they were agriculturists and
■pacifists. They were accustomed to
store a two to three year supply of
grain, mostly corn, in the dark in
side rooms of their community apart
ments against the recurring droughs.
Dr Nusbaum said he was led to
believe by a series of narrow rings
in some of the charcoal beams that
one drough had lasted 23 years, from
1276 to 1299, A. D., a period of the
greatest journeyjng of the inhabi
tants in the search of water. He
recalled that one Indian site the
pueblo oraibi of the Hopis in north
eastern Arizona, had been continu
ously occupied since 135.6
Only a few of some 78 skeletons
unearthed were sufficiently intact, he
pointed out, to allow reconstruction^
for anthropological comparison, al
though he expressed the belief that
the surviving Indians were probably
related to the ancient New Mexican
inhabitants.
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Criticism Fails
To Lead To Jail
(By The Associated Press)
, LOUISVILLE, Feb. 15, — Jules
I Marlin. 62 years old, once a member
i of the Louisville board of trade and
• formerly French instructor at the
., Louisville Institute of Technology,
[ walked into the federal building the
; other day and insisted that he be
j locked up because he had insulted
; j the President of the United States.
J He told officers that he had writ
iI ten the president criticizing the chief
i executive for. his policies and that
i he had done so deliberately so that
i he could be imprisoned. He explain
• ed that one must eat and that he
was without funds.
Federal agents told him he ^jad
committed no wrong, that his letter
j was not insulting and that the Pres
| ident was used to being criticized.
25 STUDENTS AT
WASHINGTON U.
ARE SUSPENDED
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb. 15—Suspension of
25 students from the University of
Washington in Seattle, was announc
ed late Saturday by Dr. Herbert T.
Condon, the institution’s dean for
men. The suspensions were an af
termath of an initiation party held
by the' Hammer and Coffin Society.
Liquor had been' served at the par
ty, the Faculty Discipline Commit
tee found, Dean Condon said.
The Hammer and Coffin Society
is a humorous journalistic honorary
society. if
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