Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

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Documents, images, and other data related to the ancient and historic archaeology, architecture, cultural places, and history of Mesa Verde National Park.

Site Name Keywords
Cliff Palace • Spruce-Tree House • Great Kiva, Aztec Ruin National Monument

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Kiva / Great Kiva • Archaeological Feature • Plaza • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Rock Art • Domestic Structures • Midden

Other Keywords
Special archeology / anthropology study • Mesa Verde • Ruins Stabilization • Social Change • Mese Verde National Park • New Deal archaeology • Southwestern US • Aggregation

Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Heritage Management • Archaeological Overview • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Site Stabilization • Architectural Survey • Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing • Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking

Material Types
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Macrobotanical • Wood • Basketry • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Textile

Temporal Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period • Ancestral Puebloan

Geographic Keywords
US (ISO Country Code) • United States of America (Country) • Colorado (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Montezuma County (County) • Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado • Colorado Plateau • Colorado • 08083 (Fips Code) • Montezuma (County)

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  • Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Spruce-Tree House (1909)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse Walter Fewkes.

    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.

  • Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace (1911)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse Walter Fewkes.

    This report describes archaeological investigations and ruins reconstruction and stabilization work done by Fewkes and his crew in the summer of 1909. In that time Fewkes describes repairing "...completely this great ruin and to leave it in such condition that tourists and students visiting it may learn much more about cliff-dwellings than was possible before the work was undertaken." This report describes the excavation and repair work done. It increases existing knowledge by directing...

  • A Century of Archeological Research at Mesa Verde National Park (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    This report, the proceedings of a symposium at Ute Mountain Ute Conference Center, Towaoc, Colorado. May 3, 2006 to May 6, 2006 originally was published as a CD. This digital version is available in tDAR with the permission of the Mesa Verde Museum Association, which holds the copyright. The four-day archaeological symposium celebrated 100 years of archaeological work at Mesa Verde National Park, established in 1906 as the first national park set aside expressly to protect archaeological...

  • Cliff Palace: 1997 Documentation (1997)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry V. Nordby.

    This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at...

  • Prelude to: Tapestries in Stone-A Research Design for Understanding Cliff Palace Architecture / Level 1 Architectural Documentation Database (1998)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry V. Nordby. Jim D. Mayberry. Joel M. Brisbin.

    This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at...

  • Ruins and Restoration on the Colorado Plateau: Earl Morris and the PWA (Public Works Administration) (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Pool.

    In 1934, the Carnegie Institution "loaned" archaeologist Earl Morris to the National Park Service to supervise the repair of ruins in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico. The NPS had received funding in 1933 for long-term development projects through New Deal emergency work relief programs, one of which was the Public Works Administration. The PWA provided money for physical improvements in parks and monuments, including funding for restoration and...

  • Spruce Tree House: The Social History of a Thirteenth-Century Cliff Dwelling (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Brisbin. Kay Barnett. Donna Glowacki.

    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...

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