Mitchell Springs Ruin Group (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Dove.

Mitchell Springs provided the central Montezuma Valley of southwestern Colorado a rare and reliable water source that has been used by ancients for millennia. People began to settle near the springs in the middle of the AD seventh century and by the twelfth century a sprawling watershed-wide community with large-scale architectural and agricultural works had formed. Using a combination of data from surveys and recent excavations, this article explores the ties between the rise of elite...

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The Mitchell Springs Ruin Group is located just south of Cortez Colorado in the heart of Montezuma Valley. This community was occupied from Basketmaker times through around A.D. 1240 and is made up of around 75 small pueblos, small great houses, a great kiva, 10+ meter diameter court kiva, and a tri-wall structure. Field schools conducted from 1990-2004 resulted in two publications.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse Walter Fewkes.

A report on dozens of sites in SW Colorado and nearby Utah visited by Fewkes under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology, on brief trips in 1917 and 1918.