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Show After a half-hour struggle Frank Mason, Anaheim. CAIif. finally landed this 12 pound rainbow trout caught in the Panguitch Lake July 4. Mr. Mason owns a cabin in Parowan Canyon. Anasazi Village Site Again Under Excavation BOULDER - Structures at the Anasazi Indian Village State Historical Site, Boulder, excavated by University of Utah group during the years of 1958-59 are again being re-excavated and stabilized The site was excavated during the summers of 1958 59 as part of the Glen Canyon Salvage project. At this time many Indian artifacts, various habitations and storage rooms as well as grave? were found, these sites were covered with plastic, covered with dirt and recorded because the group had no means of stabilizing and reinforcing the structure. This summer under (he direction of Burkley Bryant, supervisor and David Morgan, foreman and crew from the San Juan Stabilization Inc of Mancos, Colo., the structures are being uncovered and stabilizfi'iui work completed. Much precuatiun has to be exercised when excavating a site for the first time, compared to re-excavating The first time a little dirt is removed at a t'i."t- straining every bit of it with the biggest tool used being a trowel. When re-digging a shovel can be used to get the fill dirt out until the plastic has been reached. The crew said it feels there are new trenches going to the east of the present structure that haven't previously been excavated. However this company is unable to excavate it because it has been hired only to stabilized the already located structures. "We would love to get to the undiscovered portion," said supervisor Morgan The group is uncovering the eastern trench, not formerly excavated, but this must be done to get to the bottom of the walls, he said. While getting to the bottom of the wall of the nine storage rooms group members have found broken pots that can be reconstructed to whole pots. Two metates and six manos were . so found. Mete is an Aztec word mean-tig small table, ma no is a Spanish word for hand These instruments were used to grind their an . and grains. A slab was also uncovered by one o' the employees, grant Johnson. The slab was probably used for a three-walled structure, almost one square foot in size to grind the corn inside to keep the small pieces of corn from flying around as it was being grounded One nictate and niano set was found neatly laying on a slanted shelf by the walls of the storage rooms, an in- -dication of the careful method of caring for their tools Tjf Till. sflsW VlTt Dean Schleisman and Glynneth Llewellyn, the only female working with the crew, are cleaning out all traces of dirt and unrbilized mortar to be replaced by a stronger substance, which looks exactly like the original mortar. Morgan oointed out the different sized rooms; the snWIer ones wore probably used for storage while the larger looms, with fire pits, mealing bins and other small artifacts were probably used as living o'larters After removing any dirt from the unexcavated eastern trench of the structure, the dirt was placed in buckets to be strained, giving the workers a better chance to find im portan' artifacts, brar" pottery and other ilexes ting finds Itte walls of the struc tures are three distinctive types; jacal, which is mud, rock and post walls, masonary walls, using adobe mortar and basalt boulder and the third type, a ourse laid masonary, that is masons rv walls with adobe mortar and sandstone slabs One of the walls has an old m elate which had been cracked and it looked like they were very careful in the use of their materials, putting everything to use, even reusing old metates. Morgan said The rangers said they feel this prehistoric Indian village was believed to have been occupied from about 1000 o 1200 A D. by an estimated 200 people. It is thought to be one of the largest communities of Anasazi Indians west oi the Colorado River. The Anasazi meaning ancient ones, probably moved to this area from northern Arizona. It has been determined that shortly before or after the site was abandoned by the Anasaii Indians the village was burned Whether they were forced to abandon cannot be fully determined by the diggings but whatever the reason, the town was never reoccupied. This is the only site of these Indians known in the vicinity The crew from Colorado will work throughout the summer and by the time they have completed their work project they will have built a small reproduction ef the storage homes similar to the one they are digging and the structures they are uncovering "They will be durable enough for peoole to touch, crawl into and be weather proof, yet not look any different than when they were built," Morgan explained Anyone interested may visit the Anasazi Indian Village State His'jrical Monument in Boulder |