Show tribal apartment house Is excavated in texas texa CANYON TEXAS the first apartment houses on record in the panhandle of texas have been excavated on antelope creek northeast of amarillo officials of the W west eat texas state teachers college have announced indian awe dwelling ailing ruins inhabited apparently about 1300 A D have been found their excavation has proved definite relationships tion ships between the pueblo tribes culture of the southwest and the plains tribes culture farther east according to the college one ruin now being excavated through operation cooperation co of the works progress administration contains about 40 rooms the walls are about 18 inches thick plastered neatly inside they are covered with cottonwood logs and a thatch of brush and mud doors of each room are about three feet high and there are no windows most of the units contain a fire pit the rooms are about 20 feet square and are paved with packed clay refuse heaps show that the inhabitants were hunters and agri culturists numerous bones of buffalo deer bison and antelope have been excavated indicating that the panhandle indians ate an abundance of meat in addition to their principal vegetables C orn corn beans squashes and tomatoes |