THOUSAND YEARS OLD
CLIFF DWELLERS’ CEMETERY AN AMERICAN DISCOVERY. LOS ANGELES, April 26. The long sought burial grounds of the Casa Grande (Ariz.) cliff dwellers, probably 1000 years old, have been found by the Southwest Museum’s field expedition. It was announced today by Dr James A. B. Scherer, director of the museum here. A funeral urn of beautifully shaded red on buff colouring and containing bone fragments and ashes of the dead was brought to Los Afagelos by Dr ( Scherer on his return from Arizona. The urn, the first finding of the expo- j dition in charge of Harold S. Gladwin, revealed that two forms of burial —cremation and earth interment —wore used by the cliff dwellers. The complete skeleton of an adult, lying prone, and facing the sunset, was unearthed near where the urn was discovered.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 11
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137THOUSAND YEARS OLD Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 11
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