Researchers excavate site believed used by ancestors of several

Sunday, August 18, 2002

CIMARRON, N.M. -- Delayed by a threatening forest fire and a daily climb up a sheer cliff, archaeologists excavated and catalogued a seasonal rock dwelling they say may have been used 1,500 years ago by an ancient Indian family.

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