Show ancient ruins wa L near vernal peabody museum of harvard university group N find many my Interest interesting ingi ruins and in vernal area A group of from the peabody museum of harvard university hare have been making a recon galss 1 ca for se several verall years of the territory sest est and adjacent to the colorado and green rivers begin ning 1 in the southern part of the state they arrived in venial vernal lut last seek and will leave saturday tor for the east after spending the summer ir this section of the country they are not endeavoring to dig extensively but by accurate investigation ti are recording earth ruins and pictographs to work out the relationship of these early cultures to the epical culture of the southwest est culminated in the ruins ot of mesa mem verda the expedition Is 1 lead by donald a id scott assistant director of the museum and accompanied by J 0 brew W B bowers II 11 waldo emerson forbes alfred kidder and jamea james T dennison Denn lson all ot of harvard university the outfit Is in charre cham of david D rust of froio a former formet member of the state lehtela ture lure and nelson elson aust of 0 provo and the services of ivan atwood sere ere engaged la to take charge ot of the camp they report that the earl earliest lesl culture of the hole southwest as Is left by so called Basket makers how thaw there mar may have been hi niters through the territory five or six thousand vears affo ago in some we way they acquired culture and thia this enabled them to lead a more settled life they then developed a crude pottery and gradually fored a ily improved ed the torge storage slab cluts in which they placed their corn them crude roofs of poles wes later they turn these casts into rough houses the Basket makers had loni long narrow heads and tn in place of the bow and arr arrow 0 w used a stick tor for throwing their spars at about this time a new race called by pueblo or cliff dwellers came on the scene they were sere da dis by round heads and their babi s ere placed plated on hard cradle boards every skull found la Is flattened latt ened at the back rill rice rue seems both to hae mingled with wim and to have driven out the baa baj ket makers bit it took over and developed by regular stages the houses until they reached the t typical ical cliff catt theller dueller structure ot of tu the beat best period they also developed pottery to the wonderful state sho hon n in the I 1 nest black and white and black on red ot of the cliff r s ellers eilers in the south they also brought I 1 in the bow and arrow so little has been known of the ruins in northeastern utah and it has been supposed suppo oed that these culture of the southwest W as they are known extended so far but the result of the museum a work woric this summer shows that a fairly well developed culture extended at least to the wyoming line it Is too early to live give any continued on page me five ancients RUNS NEAK NEAR VERNAL CAUSE INTEREST continued from face one op ilon jon as to ft here the pueblo came ce from but the findings in the uintah basin aaa and around vernal ernal sm be ot of the greatest a Im an helping to unravel this question according to dr scott ecott jt though the museum has had to travel randii it haa been very try greate masted alss sud by the hearty cooperation of residents ot of the airi tan tah basin including walter E at bood of roosevelt RoO superintendent IL BI adell ot of the uintah and our ours indian agency at tort fort duchesne L thome ot of vernal the MU mii atin L A resi sizes the value cf of the relics and regrets that so often enthusiastic but untrained searchers have halt completely destroyed toire of the mott most interesting structures in feir f efforts tc pull out baskets and jugs and other material according accor dinc to mr mir scott it is hoped that local pride will de elope the spirit of preserving this unusual and iau atil record for the benefit ot of tourists and later liter scientific ork the party came up through the green aher from artta arher city and visited nine mue mile and willow deeks range creek and minnie minute maude as li ell as the land south ot of myton on the uintah riv er ney have hae been on dry fort fork ashley and brush creeks during the past week Is eek mr mir scott was waa ol 01 the opinion that the pictographs had no sig ig other than the ot of M religious and superstitious magic tile museum Is making a very cry careful stady of all that has hat been found and in the course of the next year yer ft publish a report interpret ira ir a thes these results mr mir brown said that L C thomes careful lul observation and intelligent interest in ui this survey surey have been of the greatest assistance to tle expedition ILs collection is one ot of the most interesting local exhibits the museum has hu yen ven haftl 14 mr scott |