Grass Mesa Village (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

The identification and use of available plant resources by prehistoric peoples in the Dolores Project area is the focus of Problem Domain 1 in the DAP research design (Kane et al. 1983). Pollen analysis may address this concern for Grass Mesa by examining the relative abundance of pollen obtained from various proveniences. Use of ethnographic and/or ethnohistoric records is also important in identifying resources which may have been used by indigenous people. Information obtained from these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patrick Hogan.

The Grass Mesa Locality is a spatial division of the Escalante Sector located within Montezuma County in southwestern Colorado. Intensive archaeological investigations were performed in the locality in 1978 by the Dolores Archaeological Program (D.A.P.) to anticipate projected constuction activities proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation. Preliminary interpretation of survey and excavation data suggests that the locality has had a long history of human habitation beginning in the Archaic Period...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Timothy A. Kohler.

Grass Mesa Village (Site 5MT23) is a large Pueblo I habitation site in southwestern Colorado. During investigation by the Dolores Archaeological Program in 1979 and 1980, a systematic surface collection was completed, and a probability sampling program was initiated alongside more intensive excavations. A total of 42 surface structures and 20 pitstructures (including a possible great kiva) were wholly or partially excavated during these first two field seasons. A statistical comparison of the...