Excerpt from The Village of the Great Kivas on the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico The permit issued by the Department of the Interior on April 18, 1930, under which the reconnaissance was carried on, provided for excavations at the site near Ojo Caliente. Consequently it was necessary to request a change which would sanction work at the Nutria Canyon location. This was granted on June 4, and the removal of debris from the house remains was immediately started. Activities were brought to a close the middle of September. 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."

These essays summarize the results of new excavation and survey research at Bandelier National Monument, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from life in the earlier small hamlets that first dotted the Pajarito in the mid-1100s.