Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-007: Excavations at Little House (Site 5MT2191), a Pueblo I/Pueblo II field house.

Author(s): Nancy J. Hewitt

Year: 1981

Summary

Little House (Site 5MT2191) is a small Anasazi seasonal habitation or agricultural field house located approximately five miles northwest of Dolores, Colorado. The site was excavated during the summer of 1978 as part of the Dolores Project Cultural Resources Mitigation Program. Field operations were conducted during the months of July and August. A crew consisting of University of Colorado and Youth Conservation Corps personnel investigated the small surface structure comprising four small rooms and associated features. On the basis of ceramic analysis, Little House has been assigned to the early part of the McPhee Phase (AD 850 - 970). Site 5MT2191 was probably the seasonal abode for a small household or intrahousehold group practicing small-scale agriculture in the immediate site vicinity. It is inferred that the site was occupied only during the growing and harvest season (May- September). The lack of any major remodeling episodes and the small size of the material collection suggest that the site was in use for a short period of time, perhaps no more than a single generation.

Cite this Record

Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-007: Excavations at Little House (Site 5MT2191), a Pueblo I/Pueblo II field house.. Nancy J. Hewitt. Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports. Salt Lake City, Utah: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region. 1981 ( tDAR id: 394718) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8J38W7X

URL: http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/co/field_offices/ahc/dap_documents.Par....


Keywords

Culture
Anasazi • Dolores

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Macrobotanical • Pollen

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Hearth • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Bluff Black-on-red • Chapin Black-on-white • Chapin Gray • Cultural Processes • Early Pueblo Gray • Early Pueblo Red • Early Pueblo White • Lithics • Moccasin Gray • Paleodemography • Piedra Black-on-white

Geographic Keywords
Colorado (State / Territory) • Dolores • Montezuma (County) • North America (Continent) • Sagehen Flats • Southwest Colorado • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
McPhee Pahse

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 800 to 875

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.603; min lat: 37.462 ; max long: -108.484; max lat: 37.598 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Linda Scott; J. Holly Hathaway; Jeffrey Eighmy; William Lucius; Eric Blinman; Thomas H. Hruby

Principal Investigator(s): David A. Breternitz

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Reclamation Contract No.(s): 8-07-40-S0562

Notes

General Note: As of March 2015, this and additional reports are hosted on the US Bureau of Land Management, Dolores Archaeological Program website; http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc/dolores_archaeological/dap_technical_reports.html

General Note: Those listed as contributors in the individual & institutional roles section are the authors of the accompanying appendices for this report.

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