Show strange pueblo homes found on buttes of utah may have been 1000 years old discovery of old indian dwellings ot of a type hitherto unreported has cast new light on the history of early inhabitants of utah according to prof john P gillin university of utah archeologist archaeologist arche and anthropologist the dwellings found in nine mile canyon fifty miles east cast of price utah were reported by a university archeological archaeological arche expedition headed by gillin the houses were located on low buttes from three to four hundred feet above the canyon floor they were constructed with adobe brick foundations slanting log beams and a flat log roof thatched with willows rock lined fireplaces found inside the houses were another previously unreported feature of dwellings of that age the houses were built by pueblo people about a thousand years ago gillin estimated and the type of house indicates the builders were well advanced simple rock lookout houses were found on almost inaccessible pinnacles 2000 feet above the canyon floor gillin advanced the theory that nomadic tribes possibly utes from uintah basin forced the pueblos from the canyon floor up to their butte homes and that the lookout houses on the pinnacles were built for dentri sentries C s and as impregnable fortresses in case of attacks all the houses found had been burned indicating in gillins opinion that the pueblos had grown weary of the pressure exerted by their nomadic enemies and withdrew burning their dwellings as they left it is also possible that they were fired by attackers attacker sor or destroyed by lightning they said one of the unsolved mysteries in the archeological archaeological arche study of utah is why the pueblos disappeared after developing a fairly high state of civilization |