Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-05 | Page 10 | Describes Cliff Dwellers' Ruins

DESCRIBES CLiff DELLERS RUINS Lecturer of American Institute of Archaeology Delivers an Interesting Address Dr Edgar L Hewett director of the th American Institute of Archaeology de delivered delivered livered an interesting lecture Monday night at Barratt hall hail on the subject of or orThe The Tue Excavations at Puye Pue giving In detail the results of the explorations car carried carried ried ned on by during the last summer In the region formerly peopled by the cliff dwellers in New Mexico The lecture lect re was vas illustrated by many views taken oa on the field and showed d the dwell dwellings dwellIngs ings of this ancient people as uncovered by bJ the tho exploring parties The lecture was given under the aus auspices auspices of or the Utah Archaeological society which Is a branch of the institute There was a large audience present the room being well weH filled when the lecturer began his Ms address shortly after p m Dr Hewett was introduced by b Professor ProCessor Byron Cummings of the university who called attention to the fact that the lec lecturer lecturer was not a stranger in Salt Lake having been here on two or three pre previous previous previous occasions to lecture Dr Hewett Introduced his hs lecture by referring to the researches which had been carried on in former years by b the Institute in foreign lands followed by bythe bythe bythe the explorations of the American School of Archaeology Archeology embracing researches on the American continent He spoke of the explorations in Mexico and Central Amer America AmerIca America ica and mentioned the fact that it is in intended intended intended tended to take up the study of the north northwest northwest northwest west Including Alaska and the Aleutian Islands H then referred to the work in inthe Inthe inthe the southwestern part of ot the United States and to the importance of the ex cx expedition expedition conducted by Professor Cum Cummings Cummings this year paying that the Utah branch of the Institute has been one of the most active in field work Dr Hewett then took up his main sub subject subject subject and told of the excavations made on the Puye mesa near Santa Fe N M 31 1 The lecturer had a large number of Interest Interesting Interesting interesting ing pictures of the work and explained the details in an interesting manner