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The Richmond Virginian
Richmond, Virginia
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Earl H. Morris unearthed historic pottery, relics, and artifacts including 60 pieces of rare pottery, over 20,000 stone beads, baskets, tools, turquoise items, preserved plants, animal bones, and a decapitated skeleton in Pueblo ruins near Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, for the American Museum of Natural History.
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An extraordinary find of historic pottery and relics has been made by Earl H. Morris, excavating Pueblo ruins in Aztec, San Juan county, N. M., with a force of 25 men, for the American Museum of Natural History.
The discovery includes 60 pieces of rare pottery, more than 20,000 carved red and black stone beads, baskets, matting, knives, battleaxes and other stone implements. Turquoise beads, mosaics and shell ornaments are classed as among the finest ever excavated in the Southwest.
Grains of corn, with cobs, tassels and husks, were found intact, as were also beans and bean pods, pumpkin seeds, pine cones, cotton fiber, yucca leaves, rushes, cotton yarn and cloth sandals, snowshoes, beaver teeth and bones of animals and human beings, one skeleton in a sitting position indicating the man had been decapitated.
The find was made in underground communal dwellings buried for centuries.
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Extraordinary Find Of Historic Pottery And Relics In Pueblo Ruins
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Aztec, San Juan County, N. M.
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Earl H. Morris excavated Pueblo ruins with 25 men for the American Museum of Natural History, discovering 60 pieces of rare pottery, over 20,000 carved stone beads, baskets, matting, knives, battleaxes, stone implements, turquoise beads, mosaics, shell ornaments, intact corn, beans, pumpkin seeds, pine cones, cotton fiber, yucca leaves, rushes, cotton yarn, cloth sandals, snowshoes, beaver teeth, animal and human bones, and a decapitated skeleton in underground communal dwellings.