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Piedra Depressions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Herbert W. Dick
Herbert W. Dick*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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In his recent publication, Hall disagrees with Roberts' interpretation of depressions found in conjunction with house units, as set forth in a report in 1930.

Dr. Roberts' report includes the results of a thorough examination of eighty houses, two kivas, and six circular depressions. It is the latter with which this comment is concerned. These depressions, according to Hall, are neither “borrow pits” nor “reservoirs,” but probably mark the locations of former pit houses:

“The writer cannot help but feel that the majority of Roberts's Piedra ‘reservoirs’ are pit houses and that if these were defined they would resemble the Rosa Phase pit house in many respects.”

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , April 1946 , pp. 257
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946

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References

1 Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr., Early Stockaded Settlements in the Governador, New Mexico. Columbia Studies in Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 2, Pt. 1. New York, Columbia University Press, 1944.

2 Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Early Pueblo Ruins in the Piedra District, Southwestern Colorado. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 96. Washington, 1930.

3 Ibid.. p. 19.

4 Hall, op. cit.. pp. 63–64.

5 Hall, op. cit.. p. 62.

6 Roberts, op. cit.. p. 33.

7 Ibid.. p. 59.

8 Roberts, op. cit.. p. 58.

9 Ibid.. p. 59.

10 Ibid.. p. 31.

11 Hall, op. cit.. p. 63.

12 Ibid.. p. 62.