5MT2857 (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

The Sagehen Flats Locality is 1 of 16 localities contained within the Escalante Sector. It is located in southwest Colorado approximately 6 km northwest of Dolores, Colorado. The Sagehen Flats Locality differs from surrounding localities in that it is an area of gentle slopes and small knolls. Its drainages feed the Sagehen Marsh, which eventually drains into the Dolores River to the east. The first prehistoric use of this area has been dated to the Archaic Tradition (5000 B.C.-A .D. 500)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy J. Hewitt.

During the 1979 field season of the Dolores Archaeological Program, nine sites were partially excavated as part of a testing program. This program was initiated to supplement data obtained from fully excavated sites. Specifically, this program was designed to provide additional information about the occupation of the Sagehen Flats Locality of the Dolores Project area during the Sagehen Phase which is comparable to the Basketmaker III-Pueblo I period. Each site investigated as part of this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy J. Hewitt.

Site 5MT2857 is an Anasazi limited activity site located approximately 8 km northwest of Dolores, Colorado. The site was tested during the 1979 field season as part of the Dolores Project Cultural Resources Mitigation Project. Field operations, limited to surface collection and removal of the plow zone, were conducted during September of 1979 by a University of Colorado crew. No cultural features were identified at the site, hence it was designated a locus of limited activities. Since the...