From: Steve Wingate 
Subject: IUFO: ANCIENT CHAMBERS SPAN ACROSS BENEATH NORTHERN ARIZONA
Date: 20 Mar 2001 01:44:15 -0500
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From:           	Steve Wingate 
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Subject:        	ANCIENT CHAMBERS SPAN ACROSS BENEATH NORTHERN ARIZONA  
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(This is for those who believe the idea of a secret cave in the Grand  
Canyon is a hoax. If it is off-topic for some lists then I apologise in advance. 
 --SW) 

ANCIENT CHAMBERS SPAN ACROSS BENEATH NORTHERN  
ARIZONA   

ARIZONA DAILY SUN   

Flagstaff, Arizona   

Saturday, April 27, 1991   

New Orleans (AP) -- Three young archaelogists came to Northern Arizona  
and crept through sacred rooms, over rocky precipes and by dangerous  
rattlesnakes to discover a huge complex of catagombs that could rewrite  
theories about the Indians of the southwestern United States.   

"It's absolutely mind-numbing. We would have never believed it could have  
existed," John W. Hohman, one of the three archaeologists, said Friday  
during the meeting of the 2,000 member Society of American Archaeology. 
 "It will change a lot of what we believed about Indians in the Southwest.  
They may have been far more advanced than we believed."   

Hohman admitted to feeling a bit like Indiana Jones, the archaeologists- 
adventurer from the movies. Armed with a flashlight and a pistol, it was  
Hohman who rapelled down the steep fissures, frequently dotted with  
rattlesnakes sunning themselves on rocky outcrops, into the catacombs.   

The catacombs his expedition found are the first reported in the United  
States, officials at the conference said. "It's very exciting to have it  
announced at this conference. It's one of the few times we can say this is a  
first. Anytime you have a first in our business, it's exciting," said Dr.James  
Schoenwetter, professor of anthropology at Arizona State University in  
Tempe, Ariz. "The idea of a very elaborate form of ceremonial chamber  
being built underground hundreds of years ago is surprising."   

Indians of the southwest United States were not believed to have built  
underground, Hohman said. For many of the cultures the underground held  
special connotations, both good and bad, he said. Burials were also done  
much as they are done now, he said, in graves dug into the earth. The  
catacombs, which Hohman and colleagues say are about 700 to 800 years 
 old, were discovered at a known prehistoric Indian settlement about two  
miles west of Springerville.   

The Mongollon Indians occupied the site sometime between A.D. 1250  
and 1400, Hohman said. "There had been some suspicion that there was  
something underground there," Adams said, "When we actually entered the 
 catacombs though, it just blew us away."   

Getting there wasn't easy. "Everytime I'd get halfway down one of the others 
 would find the entry way, Hohman said. The carefully hidden entrances to  
the catacombs varied from the size of doorways to small crawl spaces.  
Once inside, Hohman and his colleagues found three to four acres of  
catacombs, ranging from small chambers to huge rooms 50 feet high and  
100 feet long. "It's obvious that they were to protect the cattacombs," said  
White. ""The average person living at the site would not have had access to 
 the area. It was probably entered only by certain people."   

Hohman, Diane E. White and Christopher D. Adams were investigating the 
 area for the town with an eye toward developing it as a recreation area.  
Hohman expects the site to produce at least one more major find. "We  
think there is something else underground there. We're working in an area  
that we think will produce another major surprise," he said.   

The area, but not the catacombs, is open to the public, and will be  
developed into a recreational area, Hohman said. The park is expected to  
be opened within two years, he said. Called Casa Malpais, the site  
represents one of the largest and most complex ancient Mongollon  
communities in the nation, Hohman said.   



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