The third kind of pueblo dwellings are called cavate dwellings or lodges, a group which includes that peculiar kind of aboriginal dwelling where the rooms are excavated from the cliff wall, forming caves, where natural rock is a support or more often serves as the wall itself of the dwelling. ❋ Jesse Walter Fewkes (1890)
Iconologia: Overo descrittione di diverse imagini cavate dall'antichità, & di propria inventione. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In all cases, however, they are rudely constructed and heavily plastered with mud; in short, the masonry of the cavate lodges exhibits an ignorance fully equal to that of the stone villages, while the execution is, if anything, ruder. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
It is believed that the cliff ruins and cavate lodges, which are merely variants of each other due to geological conditions, were simply farming shelters of another type, produced by a certain topographic environment. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
The difference is principally if not wholly the result of a different physical environment, i.e., cavate lodges and cave dwellings are only different phases of the same thing; but for the present at least the name will be used and the cavate lodges will be treated as a separate class. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
This purpose would be almost as well served by the openings of the cavate lodges as by the notched doorway, and at the same time the smallest possible opening was exposed to the weather. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
Major Powell ascertained that these cavate lodges were occupied by the Havasupai Indians now living in Cataract canyon, who are closely related to the Walapai, and who, it is said, were driven from this region by the Spaniards. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
The bottom lands of the Rio Verde in the vicinity of Verde have been already described, and the cavate lodges in question occur just below the southern end of this large area of tillable land, and some of them overlook it. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
Such are the cliff ruins, the cavate lodges, and the single house remains. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
The lodges on the Rio Grande seem to have been more elaborate than those on the Verde, perhaps owing to longer occupancy; but the same arrangement of a main front room and attached back rooms, as in the cavate lodges on the Verde, was found. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
In the cavate lodges window openings are not found; there is but one opening, the doorway, and this is of a pronounced and peculiar type. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
General view of northern end of a group of cavate lodges 213 ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
In the excavation of these chambers benches were left at convenient places along the wall and niches and cubby-holes were cut, so that in the best examples of cavate lodges the occupants, it would seem, were more comfortable, so far as regards their habitation, than the ordinary Pueblo Indian of today, and better supplied with the conveniences of that method of living. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
There is but little masonry about the cavate lodges, and that is rude in character. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
It is believed that many of the single house remains of Mr Bandelier's classification [12] belong to this type, as do also many cavate lodges, and in the present paper it will be shown that some at least of the cliff ruins belong to the same category. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
Verde, in a small canyon on the eastern side of the river, and it is noteworthy that in this case stone villages occur in conjunction with and subordinate to the cavate lodges, while elsewhere within this region and in other regions the cavate lodges are found either alone or in conjunction with and subordinate to stone villages. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
This tradition was derived from an old Walapai Indian whose grandfather was alive when the cavate lodges were occupied. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
North of the valley, nearly fifty miles, on the Verde, is a great stone ruin and beyond it are cavate dwellings of remarkable sort. ❋ James H. McClintock (N/A)
So far as the evidence goes, however, it supports the conclusion that the doorways of the cavate lodges were derived from a type previously developed, and that the idea has been modified and to some extent adapted to a different environment; for if the idea had been developed in the cavate lodges there would be a much greater number of variations than we find in fact. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
It is probable that the cavate lodges whose location some 8 or 10 miles above the ruin, on Fossil creek, is shown on the general map (plate XI) were appendages of this village. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)
