"Got Data, Now What?": Fort Carson's Steps Toward Addressing Data Gaps in Archaeological Research

Summary

For several decades, the U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Fort Carson, Colorado, has had an active cultural resources management program, resulting in the documentation of over 8,000 archaeological resources. The known archaeological resources represent every period of human occupation from the Paleoindian period to the present. Site types include cache sites, open/sheltered camps, village sites, game drive sites, rock art panels, quarries, historical ranch complexes, historical trails, historical trash scatters, cairns, et cetera.

In support of the Army’s training mission, the Fort Carson Cultural Resources Management Program has focused their most recent efforts on the identification, protection and monitoring of significant resources. Through the execution of programmatic agreements (PAs) that allow for creative mitigation opportunities, the accumulated data is now being analyzed and synthesized to address gaps in the prehistory and history of southeastern Colorado. This poster will discuss current and future archaeological research and management goals and objectives.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Cultural Resource Management on Military Land   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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