Show 0 u Relics dies Found In Beaver Mounds During the previous summer Niel M. M Judd of the Smithsonian Institute and Ambrose McGarry 1 r of the University University University sity of Utah with C. C W. W Snow as poet and seeker pleasure-seeker conducted an archaeological expedition into southern Utah and northwestern Ari Ark zona For a long time several large mounds near Be Beaver aver had attracted considerable attention as an archaeological archaeological archaeological logical field a few pot-hunters pot and students had scratched the surface of the mounds but no real scientific scientific I work had ever been done in them While Mr 11 Judd was in Salt Lake making plans for his trip Mr McGarry McGar McGar- ry who lives in Beaver Deaver called his attention to the old mounds Mr 11 Judd decided to visit them an and unearth unearth unearth un un- un- un earth their hidden bidden treasures The party spent two weeks in Beaver Beaver Deaver Bea Dea- ver and at the end of that time had uncovered an ancient city of adobes The houses which were buried under five feet of dirt were well preserved and represent a newly-discovered newly type of ancient architecture The walls made of large blocks of clay stood four feet high and sixteen inches thick It was impossible to ascertain whether the houses were more than one story high as none of the walls were entirely intact In many of the rooms the floors were made mad of rock rocIe laid in like cobble stone and thickly thick thick- ly covered with a layer of clay The roofs consisted of poles laid across the bare walls thickly covered with witha a mass of willows bark and clay No entrances were found in the walls but evidently a hole bole in the roof served the purposes both of doorway and chim chim- ney Continued on Page 2 I J RELICS v FOUND Continued from Pa Page e 1 i. A few tew yards south of the buried Adobe City the remains of or two ancient ancient an an- Indians were unearthed One w was s the remains of a man th the other othera a child The larger skeleton was lying lying lying ly ly- ly- ly ing with its head to the north ann ano buried close to its feet were th the bones of the child Burial mounds are generally generally generally gen gen- rich in material but this one contained only a few pieces of broken pottery and a number of round stones In the center of the village a cIrcular circular circular cir cIr- cir cir- cular chamber about fifteen feet in diameter was found The west wall was entirely destroyed and only part of the east wall remained standing I In one end of the room buried under undera a mass of broken walls ashes and anU decayed wood a clay casket et was found The walls were broken in and there lay a heap of broken bones The skeleton was evidently that of an ancient warrior who had fallen in battle for several of his ribs were broken his shoulder blade was crushed and his skull caved No harm had come to it after its burial because the clay casket was still intact intact intact in in- tact no human hands had torn and mangled the remains since his com corn comrades comrades rades had laid lai him away in his sepulchre sepulchre sepulchre of clay The fhe party outfitted at Beaver ana continued its journey into Arizona buckboard de Nothing of importance importance importance im im- was discovered in Arizona On the return trip however a number of or interesting cliff houses near Kanab were visited and many interesting relics relics rel- rel ics cs secured One of oJ the houses in Cottonwood canyon north of Kanat Kanan proved of interest as it was entirely made up of circular rooms fashioned after the ceremonial chamber of the cliff dwellers In all the work done doney by y Dean Cummings a ruin similar to this his one has never been found Mr lVIr Judd was able to secure numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous private collections of relics pottery pottery pot- pot tery ery bone heads awls wooden implements implements implements ments and stone axes from the people of southern Utah From an archaeological archaeological logical standpoint the trip was z l great success It is to be regretted however that much of the material which was sent to the Smithsonian Institute could not have found its way to o the University of Utah museum Mr lVIr Judd contemplates making a similar similar simlar sim- sim ilar lar expedition as soon as spring opens pens |