Spruce Tree House
Part of: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Documents and data related to the ancient architecture and archaeology of Spruce Tree House.
Site Name Keywords
Spruce-Tree House
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features •
Non-Domestic Structures •
Archaeological Feature
Other Keywords
Mesa Verde •
Social Change •
Mese Verde National Park •
Aggregation
Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan
Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation •
Archaeological Overview •
Architectural Survey •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Site Stabilization •
Ethnographic Research •
Ethnohistoric Research
Material Types
Building Materials •
Ceramic •
Chipped Stone •
Macrobotanical •
Wood •
Basketry
Temporal Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period
Geographic Keywords
US (ISO Country Code) •
United States of America (Country) •
Colorado (State / Territory) •
Montezuma County (County) •
North America (Continent) •
Colorado Plateau •
Mesa Verde •
Southwest Colorado •
Mesa Verde Area •
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Spruce-Tree House (1909)
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Fewkes' report on the site of Spruce-Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park. The report describes the ancient architecture and some of the contents of the site, which Fewkes investigated in 1907. He also includes a long section of the 1892 publication by Nordenksiold (The Land of the Cliff Dwellers) describing his earlier investigation of the site.
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Spruce Tree House: The Social History of a Thirteenth-Century Cliff Dwelling (2015)
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As one of the best preserved ancestral Pueblo sites in the Southwest, Spruce Tree House presents a unique opportunity to examine aggregation during the 1200s; a time fraught with significant social and religious changes, intensifying intraregional violence, and extreme climatic conditions that ends with widespread Pueblo exodus from the region. This paper presents our fine-grained reconstruction of how Spruce Tree House developed over time based on detailed architectural documentation and a...