Re-examination of the 1975 – 1977 Excavations of the Pueblo I-II Components of Cave Canyon Village, Montezuma Canyon, Utah

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Brigham Young University’s Archaeology Field School conducted three seasons of fieldwork from 1975 - 1977 on the Basketmaker III and Pueblo 1 – Pueblo II Ancestral Puebloan components of Cave Canyon Village in Montezuma Canyon, southeastern Utah. The excavations provided data, including radiocarbon, archaeomagnetic and dendrochronological dates, on the Basketmaker and Puebloan components of this extensive village. This data is re-examined considering recent studies in and near Montezuma Canyon. East and downhill from the Basketmaker III component, Cave Canyon Village was also extensively occupied during the late Pueblo I – Pueblo II periods. In 1975 an L-shaped above-ground pueblo and three associated pit structures/kivas were excavated. In 1977 a backhoe trench discovered five contiguous pit structures/kivas directly east of the 1975 excavations along an east-west trending ridge. Two of these kivas were excavated in 1977 as well as portions of an above-ground room block adjacent to one of the excavated kivas on the easternmost portion of the Cave Canyon Village ridge. Cave Canyon Village appears to be strategically located in Montezuma Canyon to take advantage of arable land and other resources.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24841