Show IN NIAL MILL MILE A THOUSAND ind I 1 EARS AGO university of utah anthropologists discovered a pueblo indian sky bouse on top of a rock table in 9 11 canyon which rises about feet above the valley floor it was well adapted as a lookout command ing a view up and down the villey A thousand years ago the pueblos in utah had a fairly high degree of civilization living by hunting by gathering seeds and a limited agri culture they displaced the earlier basket makers and in turn were driven out by the nomadic utes the mor modern madern type their was very crude and limited to small patches evidences of the succession of the three civilizations are revealed by a bulletin giving th tbt results ol 01 an ar theological che investigation conducted by dr john gillin recently the pueblos were forced to leave their home either by drouth or by enemies and amir houses were burn bum ed behind them under the charred beams of one house the skeleton of a 25 or 30 year old woman was dis covered archeologists have fished the date of the happening at about or 1 B C by combar ing the pottery and house types with those in other localities witch w lich by well known means have been abc acc accey ap tably bably fixed in time the remains of the semi sub teran ean houses in nin mile canyon are of the type found in willard grants ville and central utah the rooms are not slab lined as Is the case in the ruins near ephraim kanab zion park and st george |