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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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Construction of a House in the Hissar Valley. |
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deposition of rubbish. As long as the city lives, there is an inflowing supply of
food for its occupants, and raw material to replenish the decay of their houses and
supply their useful arts. The deposition of that inflow is spread more or less
evenly throughout the city or whole walled area and must in time result in an
appreciable growth. That such a growth does and did result is evidenced by
plateaus of stratified débris that rise from out the plains where ancient cities were.
From exposures in gullies and trenches, we have found that these are composed
of horizontal layers of clay with pottery, bones, and charcoal, and here and there
the basal remnant of a wall with part of an old floor.
Seen far out on the desert plains, where they most abound, these plateaus
are unmistakable. And any one who has thought about topography can not
fail to recognize them, even though the land be one of high relief. Even when
much modified by erosion, as are the older ones, they still rise as contradictions
to surrounding forms until obliterated by weathering or burial. It can not, how-
ever, be assumed that all artificial mounds are records of slow growth from occu-
pation, even though left by man, for in the past he heaped mounds over the dead
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