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Show Three Separate Cultures Found By Scientists Evidences that three separate cultures, varying In antiquity from approximately one to two thousand thou-sand years, existed among the ancient an-cient Pueblo Indians who inhabited inhabit-ed the country of the Colorado River Ri-ver in southeastern Utah, have been found. Judging from the comparative scarcity of cliff dwelling dwel-ling and camp site ruins, these primitive Utahns, who subsisted mainly on beans, squash, and com, lived there but a short time; nor was the Colorado ever a much-traveled much-traveled waterway. Such are a few of the interesting interest-ing announcements by Dr. Julian H. Steward, professor of anthropology anthro-pology and archeology at the University Un-iversity of Utah, who with Byron Hughes, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, and others, recently returned after a month's scientific expedition under un-der the auspices of the University of Utah. From the mouth of the Fremont River to Lee's Ferry the archeol-ogists archeol-ogists traced the spread of Pueblo civilization in its more northerly aspects. Although no excavations were made, the group located thirty-five ancient Indian camp sites and cliff dwellings, among them a seven-room ruin about fifteen hundred years old. A study of fragments of broken pottery, stone bowls for corn grinding, ceremonial storage rooms and cists, and of picture writing occasionally oc-casionally found, resulted in the conclusion that three distinct cultures cul-tures had at different periods inhabited in-habited the river country. Supplementing the work of his recent expedition, Dr. Steward left with another party on August 1 for a three weeks' study of Indian remains around the northern tributaries tri-butaries of the Colorado in Kane and Garfield counties. |