Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Spruce-Tree House

Author(s): Jesse Walter Fewkes

Year: 1909

Summary

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.

Cite this Record

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Spruce-Tree House. Jesse Walter Fewkes. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin ,41. Washington, DC: Government Printing office. 1909 ( tDAR id: 372617) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8HH6HW4

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Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Basketry • Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Macrobotanical • Wood

Site Name
Spruce-Tree House

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Documentation • Architectural Survey • Data Recovery / Excavation • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing • Site Stabilization

General
Mese Verde National Park

Geographic Keywords
Colorado Plateau • Mesa Verde • Southwest Colorado

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.712; min lat: 37.053 ; max long: -108.322; max lat: 37.331 ;

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