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Introduction 9
Historical 10
Classification 14
Villages 16
Rectangular ruins of the pure type 16
Surouaro 16
Goodman Point Ruin 17
Johnson Ruin 18
Bug Mesa Ruin 19
Mitchell Spring Ruin 19
Mud Spring (Burkhardt) Ruin 20
Ruin with semicircular core 22
Wolley Ranch Ruin 22
Blanchard Ruin 23
Ruins at Aztec Spring 23
Great open-air ruins south and southwest
of Dove Creek post office 28
Squaw Point Ruin 28
Acmen Ruin 29
Oak Spring House 29
Ruin in Ruin Canyon 30
Cannonball Ruin 30
Circular ruins with peripheral compartments 31
Wood Canyon Ruins 32
Butte Ruin 32
Emerson Ruin 33
Escalante Ruin 36
Cliff-dwellings 37
Cliff-dwellings in Sand Canyon 38
Double cliff-house 38
Scaffold in Sand Canyon 38
Unit type houses in caves 39
Cliff-houses in Lost Canyon 40
Great houses and towers 40
Masonry 40
Structure of towers 42
Hovenweep district 44
Ruin Canyon 44
Square Tower Canyon 45
Classification of ruins in
Square Tower Canyon 46
Hovenweep House (Ruin 1) 46
Hovenweep Castle 47
Western section of Hovenweep Castle 47
Eastern section of Hovenweep Castle 48
Ruin 3 48
Ruin 4 49
Ruin 5 49
Ruin 6 49
Eroded bowlder house (Ruin 7) 49
Twin Towers (Ruin 8) 50
Ruin 9 50
Unit type House (Ruin 10) 50
Stronghold House (Ruin 11) 51
Ruins in Holly Canyon 52
Ruin A, Great House, Hackberry Castle 52
Towers [C and D] 52
Holly House 53
Ruins in Hackberry Canyon 53
Horseshoe House 53
Towers in the Main Yellow Jacket Canyon 54
Davis Tower 55
Lion (Littrell) Tower 55
McLean Basin 55
Tower in Sand Canyon 57
Towers in Road (Wickyup) Canyon 57
Towers of the Mancos 58
Holmes Tower 58
Towers on the Mancos River below the bridge 59
Tower A 59
Tower B 59
Megalithic and slab house ruins at McElmo Bluff 60
Grass Mesa Cemetery 64
Reservoirs 64
Pictographs 65
Minor antiquities 66
Historic remains 68
Conclusions 68
Index 77