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Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER IV
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At right angles with this was a wall of cobble-stones, and among the buried debris were fragments of adobe bricks.

In one room of this group, at a depth of less than five feet, we struck a floor of trodden concrete.

Breaking through we found a huddle of six or seven skeletons, which, however, were not entire.
Rarely if ever was any object found in these rooms, except, perhaps, some stray axe, or some metates and grinding stones, and in one case a square stone paint pot.

But by digging below the concrete floors we came upon skeletons which seemed to have been laid down without regard to any rule, and with them were invariably buried some household utensils, such as earthenware jars and bowls, beautifully decorated; axes and mauls, fairly carved and polished.

One very rare object was secured: a doubled-grooved axe.


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