Show pueblo indian Sk found university of utah anthropologists locate relic in nine mile canyon carbon county unknown to the white residents of nine mile canyon in carbon and duchesne counties until university of ulah anthropologists discovered it is a pueblo indian sky house located in an almost inaccessible position atop a table rock which rises precipe nearly four hundred feet aboe abode the valley floor situated as it was the sky house was well adapted as a lookout or a place lolace of defense against enemies e ly in the rolling of rocks down on the enemy a method used by the pueblos A thousand years ago the pueblos in utah had a fairly high degree of civilization living by hunting gathering and agriculture they displaced the earlier basket makers and in turn were driven out by the nomadic utes the more modern type the pueblos pioneered the new country much as the mormons cormons did later they even employed a cru crude deform form of irrigation according to E R smith university of utah antero anthropologist po logist these hese three civilizations are revealed repealed by the university of utah investigation of the indian ruins ruins in n nine mile canyon which is entered by road about thirty eight miles northeast of price utah the results of the archaeological expedition have just been published in bulletin by dr john gillin gilbri member of the university an and sociology department at the time of the excavations the pueblos were forced to leave their homes either by drouth or enemies and their houses were burned behind them perhaps to prevent others from having them under the charred beams of one house was found the skeleton of a twenty f five ive or thirty year old woman archaeologists established the date of the happening at about or 1000 A D by comparing the pottery and house types with those in other locations the remains of the semi hubter fanean houses in nine mile canyon are of the type found in willard grantsville Grants ville and central utah the rooms are not slab lined as is is the case in the ruins near ephraim kanab zion park and st geo |