The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18157662702)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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Excavated rooms in another of the oldest sections of the San Pedro Viejo ruins. Directly beyond the excavations is the ancient cornfield and farther on the Arroyo San Pedro. In the distance are the San Pedro Mountains. View looking east themselves deeply into the life and char- acter of the native people and have largely made them what they are. Town-building in the Southwest had its beginning in the distant past and reached its climax before the arrival of the white man. The first native settlers (at least in the northeastern section of the pueblo area) who have left definite traces of themselves, appear to have lived in more or less thickly scattered small houses of one or two rooms. Just what relation these small-house dwellers bore to later village dwellers is not yet 390 clear, except in so far as their general mode of life appears to have been identi- cal. The question as to what brought about town-building is not easily an- swered. One may be strongly inclined to say that the Indian village (of which there are several types) had its origin in bare economic necessity. This as- sertion cannot however entirely preclude social and defensive considerations, and so, if we are to be on safe ground, we must allow credit to all three factors — eco- nomic, defensi^'e and social. The particular type of pueblo studied