The Indian Camp Ranch Community: a Two Hundred Year-Long History of a Basketmaker III Community in Southwest Colorado

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This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Basketmaker III is a formative period in Ancestral Pueblo history but has rarely been researched at the settlement level. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Basketmaker Communities Project investigated a concentration of 79 Basketmaker III sites in a square kilometer area of southwest Colorado and found evidence of an intentionally organized community. Results suggest this community was founded by immigrants and integrated by group ritual at a central great kiva. This paper presents the history of the Indian Camp Ranch (ICR) community from its inception in the late sixth century A.D. to its fluorescence in the early eighth century A.D.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24023