Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace (Classic Reprint)

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace (Classic Reprint)

Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781332235582

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Excerpt from Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace was written by Jesse Walter Fewkes in 1911. This is a 157 page book, containing 37822 words and 57 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park

Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-22

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780483620933

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Excerpt from Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Spruce-Tree House It is gratifying to state that Doctor Fewkes was able to complete the work assigned him, and that Spruce-tree House - the largest ruin in Mesa Verde Park with the exception of the Cliff Palace - is now accessible for the first time, in all its features, to those who would view one of the great aboriginal monuments of our country. This is the more important since Spruce-tree House fulfills the require ments of a type ruin, and since, owing to its situation, it is the clifi dwelling from which most tourists obtain their first impressions of structures of this character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park

Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781507670606

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"[...]forming apparently an immediate continuation of the rock. The latter is coursed by a fissure which also extends through the wall. This crevice must therefore have appeared subsequent to the building operation. To the right of this curved wall (still in Pl. XIII) lie four rooms (15-18 in the plan), and in front of them two terraces (21-22) connected by a step. One of the rooms is surrounded by walls three stories high and reaching up to the roof of the cave. The terraces are bounded to the north (the left in Pl. XIII) by a rather high wall, standing apart from the remainder of the building. Not far from the rooms just mentioned, but a little farther back, lie two cylindrical chambers (21 a, 23). The wall of 21 a is shown in Pl. XIII with a beam resting against it. The beam had been placed there by one of the Wetherills to assist him in climbing to an upper ledge, where low walls, resembling the[...]".