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قراءة كتاب Casa Grande Ruin Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318

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Casa Grande Ruin
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318

Casa Grande Ruin Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318

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CASA GRANDE RUIN

BY

COSMOS MINDELEFF


CONTENTS


Page
Introduction 295
Location and character 295
History and literature 295
Description 298
The Casa Grande group 298
Casa Grande ruin 306
State of preservation 306
Dimensions 307
Detailed description 309
Openings 314
Conclusions 318
Footnotes
Index

ILLUSTRATIONS


Page
Plate LI. Map of Casa Grande group 298
LII. Ground plan of Casa Grande ruin 302
LIII. General view of Casa Grande ruin 305
LIV. Standing wall near Casa Grande 307
LV. Western front of Casa Grande ruin 309
LVI. Interior wall of Casa Grande ruin 310
LVII. Blocked opening in western wall 312
LVIII. Square opening in southern room 314
LIX. Remains of lintel 317
LX. Circular opening in northern room 319
Fig. 328. Map of large mound 301
329. Map of hollow mound 304
330. Elevations of walls, middle room 315

CASA GRANDE RUIN


By Cosmos Mindeleff


INTRODUCTION.

LOCATION AND CHARACTER.

The Casa Grande ruin, situated near Gila river, in southern Arizona, is perhaps the best known specimen of aboriginal architecture in the United States, and no treatise on American antiquities is complete without a more or less extended description of it. Its literature, which extends over two centuries, is voluminous, but of little value to the practical scientific worker, since hardly two descriptions can be found which agree. The variations in size of the ruin given by various authors is astonishing, ranging from 1,500 square feet to nearly 5 acres or about 200,000 square feet in area. These extreme variations are doubtless due to difference of judgment as to what portion of the area

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