Surface Archaeology as Site Assessment: The Haynie Site and the Northern Chaco Outliers Project

Summary

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is beginning a multi-year project at the Haynie site, a Chaco outlier in the central Mesa Verde region of southwest Colorado. In 2016, the goal was to assess the spatial and temporal characteristics of Haynie through in-field analyses of pottery and chipped-stone artifacts from the surface. This was done via systematic dog-leash collection units placed across the site, as well as judgmental analysis of artifacts in disturbed contexts. Through analyses of artifacts from dog-leash units over the entire 5-acre site property, we discuss temporal and spatial patterning reflected by observed pottery and lithic raw material distributions. Although surface architecture reflects the Pueblo II period (A.D. 900-1150) component at Haynie, the surface-based artifact analyses demonstrate much greater time depth, with pottery types suggesting continuous use from the Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500-750) through the Pueblo III period (A.D. 1150-1300). This project will help guide test excavations which will begin in 2017.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 16377