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A Prehistoric Method of Collecting Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Albert H. Schroeder*
Affiliation:
Wupatki National Monument

Extract

While in the field, running a stabilization survey at Wupatki National Monument, the writer and Phillip Van Cleave, an assistant, encountered a site which illustrates another method utilized by the prehistoric Indians in dealing with the problem of water supply in this arid region.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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References

1 Colton, H. S. and L. L. Hargrave Handbook of Northern Arizona Pottery Wares. Museum of Northern Arizona, Bulletin 11, Flagstaff, 1937, pp. 196–197