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Photographer: Richard Denney
Taken: November 21, 2010
Caption: Pithouse Display and Marker
Additional Description: Marker reads: Pit House, A prehistoric Native American village was present in this area about 2,000 years ago. At that time, people lived in small, circular houses. Here you can see the floor of one such house. The holes around the edge held saplings that were bent over to created a domed roof. A small fire hearth was located in the center of the floor. A family of four may have taken shelter in this house during the winter months. Centuries later, the Spanish unknowingly built the east wall of the presidio over the edge of the pithouse.
Submitted: November 25, 2010, by Richard Denney of Austin, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p137950
File Size: 3.309 Megabytes

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