Prehistoric Villages, Castles, and Towers of Southwestern Colorado

Author(s): Jesse Walter Fewkes

Year: 1919

Summary

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.

Cite this Record

Prehistoric Villages, Castles, and Towers of Southwestern Colorado. Jesse Walter Fewkes. Bureau of American Ethnology Buletin ,70. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing office. 1919 ( tDAR id: 371800) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8FT8J7N

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Historic

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Human Remains • Wood

Site Name
Acmen Ruin • Blanchard Ruin • Bug Mesa Ruin • Butte Ruin • Cannonball Ruin • Davis Tower • Dove Creek Ruins • Emerson Ruin • Escalante Ruin • Goodman Point Ruins • Grass Mesa Cemetery • Hackberry Castle • Holly House • Holmes Tower • Horseshoe House • Hovenweep Castle • Hovenweep House • Johnson Ruin • Lion (Littrell) Tower • Mitchell Springs Ruin Group • Mud Springs Ruins • Oak Spring Ruin • Ruin 9 • Squaw Point Ruin • Stronghold House • Surouaro • Twin Towers • Wolley Ranch Ruin • Wood Canyon Ruin Show More

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Hamlet / Village • Kiva / Great Kiva • Pictograph • Settlements

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Documentation • Data Recovery / Excavation • Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research

Geographic Keywords
Colorado Plateau • Holly Canyon • Hovenweep Area • Hovenweep Canyon • Lost Canyon • Road Canyon • Sand Canyon, Colorado • Southeast Utah • Southwest Colorado • Square Tower Canyon • Wickyup Canyon • Wood Canyon • Yellow Jacket Canyon

Spatial Coverage

min long: -109.435; min lat: 36.95 ; max long: -106.545; max lat: 38.686 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Smithsonian Institution

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