Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-108: Excavations at Windy Wheat Hamlet (Site 5MT4644), a Pueblo I habitation

Author(s): Joel M. Brisbin

Year: 1984

Summary

Windy Wheat Hamlet (Site 5MT4644) is a Pueblo I habitation site located in the Sagehen Flats Locality of the Dolores Archaeological Program study area. Three elements of occupation, occurring between A.D. 740 and the early 800's, have been recognized at Windy Wheat Hamlet. During the earliest element, which dates to the late Sagehill Subphase, one pitstructure was occupied at the site. No surface rooms were found to be associated with this element, but extensive pl owing may have destroyed evidence of such structures. After a brief period of abandonment, the site was reoccupied and one pitstructure and several surface rooms wereconstructed. This occupation, termed Element 2, began in A.D. 776 (based on tree-ring dates) and has been assigned to the Dos Casas Subphase. In approximately A.D. 800, another pitstructure and several additional surface rooms were constructed. Thus, this final occupation (Element 3), which has been assigned to the Dos Casas Subphase, was manifested by two pitstructures and a series of surface rooms. In the early 800's, the structures at the site were burned and the site was abandoned .

Due to the excellent preservation of Pitstructure 1, an intensive botanical and pollen sampling program was implemented in this structure. The results of this sampling program are provided in appendixes of this report.

Cite this Record

Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-108: Excavations at Windy Wheat Hamlet (Site 5MT4644), a Pueblo I habitation. Joel M. Brisbin. Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports. Salt Lake City, Utah: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region. 1984 ( tDAR id: 398491) ; doi:10.6067/XCV88K7CQ7

URL: http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/co/field_offices/ahc/dap_documents.Par....


Keywords

Culture
Anasazi

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Macrobotanical • Pollen

Site Name
5MT4644 (Windy Wheat Hamlet)

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Abajo Polychrome • Abajo Red-on-orange • Bluff Black-on-red • Cahone tract • Chapin Black-on-white • Chapin Gray • Cibola • Dolores Brown • Dolores Red • Dolores tract • Early Pueblo Gray • Early Pueblo Red • Flaked Lithic Tools • Late Pueblo Gray • Lino Gray • Lithics • Magnetometry • Mancos Gray • McPhee Black-on-red • Moccasin Gray • nonflaked lithic tools • Nonhuman bone tools • Painted white ware • Paleodemography • Piedra Black-on-white • Polished white ware • Sandstone tract • San Juan tract • Slipped red ware Show More

Geographic Keywords
Colorado (State / Territory) • Dolores • Dolores (County) • Montezuma (County) • North America (Continent) • Southwest Colorado • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Dos Casas Subphase • Pueblo I • Sagehen Phase

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 740 to 810 (End date for occupations is the early 800's)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.604; min lat: 37.463 ; max long: -108.482; max lat: 37.591 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Robert J. Huggins; Linda J. Scott; Meredith H. Matthews; Linda P. Hart; Thomas H. Hruby; Sarah W. Neusius

Principal Investigator(s): David A. Breternitz

Sponsor(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Regional Office

Prepared By(s): University of Colorado, Dolores Archaeological Program

Submitted To(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Regional Office

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Reclamation Contract No.(s): 8-07-40-S0562

Notes

General Note: As of April 2015, this and additional reports are hosted on the US Bureau of Land Management, Dolores Archaeological Program website; http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc/dolores_archaeological/dap_technical_reports.html

General Note: Those listed as contributors in the individual & institutional roles section are the authors of the accompanying appendices for this report.

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