This large ruin, which has been described by Doctor Prudden as Squaw
Point Ruin and as Pierson Lake Ruin, was visited by the author, who has
little to add to this description. One of the small heaps of stone or
mounds has been excavated and its structure found to conform with the
definition of the unit type. The subterranean communication between one
of the rectangular rooms and the kiva could be well seen at the time of
the author’s visit and recalls the feature pointed out by him in some
of the kivas of Spruce-tree House. The large reservoir and the great
ruin are noteworthy features of the Squaw Point settlement.
It seems to the author that the large block of buildings is simply a
congeries of unit types the structure of one of which is indicated by
the small buildings excavated by Doctor Prudden, and that structurally
there is the same condition in it as in the pueblo ruins of Montezuma
Valley, a conclusion to which the several artifacts mentioned and
figured by Doctor Prudden also point.
The same holds true of Bug Point Ruin, a few miles away, also excavated
and described by Doctor Prudden. Here also excavation of a small mound
shows the unit type, and while no one has yet opened the larger mound
or pueblo, superficial evidences indicate that it also is a complex of
many unit types joined together. Until more facts are available the
relative age of the small unit types as compared to the large pueblo
can not be definitely stated, but there is little reason to doubt that
they are contemporaneous, and nothing to support the belief that they
do not indicate the same culture.