IDENTIFICATION OF MACROBOTANICAL REMAINS FROM HISTORIC SITES 5DV4169 AND 5DV3579 IN DOWNTOWN DENVER, COLORADO

Summary

A possible privy was excavated at Site 5DV4169 in the vicinity of the old

Lewis hotel in lower downtown Denver, Colorado. Fill from the base of the

feature was examined to provide information concerning diet of the late 19th

century/early 20th century occupants. The area of Site 5DV3579, also in lower

downtown Denver, Colorado, was the site of an extensive dump that may have been associated with a nearby shanty town from the late 1880s until about 1912, the interval between floodings of the South Platte River. Pits and shells from the

dump samples were identified in order to determine foods eaten by the shanty town occupants.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

Record Identifiers

PRI Technical Report(s): 93-055

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