Notes on the Excavation in the Aztec Ruin

Author(s): Earl H. Morris

Year: 1928

Summary

The following pages contain the greater part of the notes recorded while excavations at the Aztec Ruin were in progress. The first were written in July, 1916; the last, in August, 1927. Those here segregated are confined to secular rooms and general conditions, the ceremonial chambers having been reserved for treatment in a paper dealing specifically with kivas.

Cite this Record

Notes on the Excavation in the Aztec Ruin, Part 5. Earl H. Morris. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ,Vol. 26. New York, New York: The American Musuem of Natural History. 1928 ( tDAR id: 377888) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8M61M4C

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Mineral • Shell • Wood

Site Name
Aztec Ruins, West Ruin

Site Type
Chacoan Outlier • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Settlements • Town / City

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Earl Morris • Excavation Data Report • Excavation Descriptions

Geographic Keywords
Animas Valley • Four Corners Region • Middle San Juan • San Juan Basin • Totah

Temporal Keywords
Late Chacoan - Post Chacoan Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1110 to 1140 (Late Chacoan)

Calendar Date: 1140 to 1280 (Post-Chacoan)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.041; min lat: 36.81 ; max long: -107.96; max lat: 36.861 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Gary Brown; Lori Reed; David Hurst Thomas

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