the Red Sea. Small house sites dotted the mesas and canyons on both sides. But still, members of both groups could possibly have lived here together. Legend hints at this. As time went on more houses sprang up at the base of the north cliff and crude pueblos were erected on the floor
of
the Canyon. Kivas or ce
remonial chambers were
ey floor and lined with walls of rock. Indians gathered cobble stone because they might not have known how to cut blocks during these early times with which to lay masonry walls. They gathered thousands of them and built their kiva walls eight or ten feet thick. This was t
heir
attempt
to utilize th
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shaped felsite or volcanic ash. They laid huge timbers fifteen or more inches m diameter atross the walls of their large underground chambers. Then smaller poles of pine were cut
and laid on top
of th e large vigas. Splitt
ings were hacked fr
om down trees.
Pine, Co
ttonwood, junip
er, pifionÑanythi
ng that would split
easily with crude stone implementsÑ^were
used for the next
roof course. Then brush and grass and mud were put on top.
The roofs must have
been two or more feet thick but little
did the Indians realiz
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