Animas River Valley (Geographic Keyword)
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POLLEN, STARCH, PARASITE, PHYTOLITH, MACROFLORAL, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF COPROLITES FROM ROOM 225, WEST RUIN, AZTEC RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT, AZTEC, NEW MEXICO (2009)
Aztec Ruins National Monument is the largest ancestral Puebloan community in the Animas River Valley. Several multi-story buildings, smaller structures, and kivas represent residential and ceremonial structures. Room 225 in West Ruin, a great house, contained numerous coprolites, six of which were sent to PaleoResearch Institute. Of these six coprolites, in order to remain within budgetary limits, three were selected for analysis that included finding and identifying macrofloral remains, pollen,...