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- Title
ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN SETTLEMENT PATTERNS OF REDWOOD LLAMA RANCH: SURVEY ANALYSIS.
- Authors
DEADY, TUCKER A.
- Abstract
Archaeological survey of 344 ha (850 acres) at Redwood Llama Ranch in southwestern Colorado documented over 50 previously unrecorded archaeological sites. This 2016 survey, completed as a settlement pattern study using a landscape archaeology framework, explored the extent of Ancestral Puebloan habitation and activity within this property situated in a canyon and on the mesa above it. The results of the study, as determined through pedestrian survey and GIS analysis, revealed three main phases of occupation between the late Pueblo I and early Pueblo III periods. These three phases saw a general trend of expansion from habitation mainly surrounding the canyon rim to a final movement both outward onto the rolling mesa top and into the depths of the canyon before its abandonment in the AD mid-1200s. The evidence for these trends was provided through diagnostic ceramic and lithic material as well as architectural remains. This progression reflects regional tendencies and provides a basis for a dialogue on the effects of climate, aggregation of communities, transfer of knowledge, and contact throughout the Four Corners region.
- Subjects
COLORADO; ANCESTRAL Pueblo culture; LAND settlement patterns; LLAMA breeders; ARCHAEOLOGICAL surveying
- Publication
Southwestern Lore, 2019, Vol 85, Issue 3, p23
- ISSN
0038-4844
- Publication type
Article