Before 1933, a number of sites had been dug in the area including the drainage of the upper Gila, the San Francisco, and the Mimbres rivers. Most of these were late Pueblo sites. Customarily they were thought to represent a regional variant of the culture now called Anasazi. A few investigators, however, suspected that these remains might have had a separate origin. In 1933, Haury excavated Mogollon Village for Gila Pueblo, and the following summer, Harris Village. These were published in 1936 (Haury 1936a and 1936b). For the first time there appeared a clear statement of se'quent phases in the area. But equally important was the resultant hypothesis that these cultural remains were not a regional variation of Anasazi but, instead, represented a hitherto unrecognized group.