| Show TEW NEW THEORY ON CLIFF DWELLERS E R S A new explanation as to why the lift iff dwellings dael lings are tinted at such 8 uc h an al L mense hei height ight was wai advanced by the conA commissioner missioner of indian affairs francis E leupp at the t or of the new york state chapter of the colorado cliff dwellings association the theory was that at the time lime the cliff dwellers built their quaint homes probably as tar far back as the age of mammoths Mam Alam moths an immense stream flowed by almost on a level with the houses this flow ot of water greatly wore down the bell bed ai of the river until it became so sunken as to leave the houses at an almost inac tessible ces sible elevation another interesting point brought out by the com commissioner r related to the fact that the doorways of the dwellings average only three or four feet in height the builders had constructed on the principle that as animals had small openings in the ground human beings needed doorways only sufficiently large to allow the body to pass through mr leupp described alese anese dwellings when viewed as a whole as a sight of impressive ganderr gan deur with the unbroken silence brooding over all new york times |
