Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-001: Introduction to Field Investigations and Analysis

Part of the Dolores Archaeological Program project

Author(s): Allen E. Kane; David A. Breternitz

Year: 1981

Summary

In 1978, the University of Colorado began field operations for the Dolores Project Cultural Resources Mitigation Program. The Bureau of Reclamation funded the Program before constructing a multipurpose water storage and distribution system on the Dolores River. Before field investigations, a general research design was formulated that had five major problem domains: economy and adaptation, paleodemography, social organization and settlement pattern, foreign relationships, and cultural process, as well as the design of a site typology and preliminary systems of spatial and temporal units. Fieldwork was conducted on June 12, 1978, and ended on November 22, 1978. During this time Washington State University and the University of Colorado conducted excavations on seven prehistoric sites with an occupational period of 4000 B.C. to A.D. 1200. Goals of the field investigation were to assess the temporal range of artifacts collected, the variability of site types and distributions, and the quality and quantity of portable artifacts.

Cite this Record

Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-001: Introduction to Field Investigations and Analysis. Allen E. Kane, David A. Breternitz. 1981 ( tDAR id: 502418)
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Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Numic and Late Pueblo • PaleoIndian

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Mineral • Pollen • Shell • Wood

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Feature • Kiln • Kiva / Great Kiva • Midden • Military Structure • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Plaza • Post Hole / Post Mold • Rock Alignment • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Water Control Feature • Wattle & Daub (Jacal) Structure

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Geophysical Survey • Reconnaissance / Survey • Remote Sensing • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

Geographic Keywords
Dolores River Valley • Mesa Verde Region • Southwestern Colorado

Temporal Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Basketmaker I • Basketmaker II • Basketmaker III • Protohistoric • Pueblo I • Pueblo II • Pueblo III

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.59; min lat: 37.47 ; max long: -108.5; max lat: 37.57 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Alexis A. Hamilton; Donald Howes; Katherine S. Miller; Jane A. Ward; Barbara J. Cullington; David H. Greenwald; Lora VanRenselaar; Ricky R. Lightfoot; Joseph W. Studer; Judith A. Southward; Laurie A. Whiting; Douglas, A. Goulding; Sarah H. Schlanger; Dorin E. Steele; Vickie L. Clay; Stacy A. Story; Lynn L. Udick; Craig F. Woodman; Robert P. Ryan; Phyllis A. Wolf; Douglas, D. Dykeman; Cathy J. Watts; Kristin Kuckelman; Raymond G Harriman; Gregory C. Nelson; Phillip D. Neusius; Adrian S. White; Melissa Gould; Louise M. Schmidlap; Patrick F. Hogan; Arthur L. Rohr; Rita Arnett; Karen Dohm; Alice M. Emerson; Rysta E. Frederick; Gail G. Snyder; Patrick Harden; Mary C. Etzkron; J. Holly Hathaway; Susan E. King; Thirza D. Kennedy; Nancy J. Hewitt; Linda P. Hart; Steven R. Dominquez; Richard H. Wilshusen; John P. McCarthy; Meredith H. Matthews; Jane L. Epstein; Gary A. Brown; T. Homer Hurby; Anne M. Wolley; Maxine M Morris; Michael J. Hilton; Charlotte L. Benson; John R. Stein; John L. Montgomery; James H. Kleidon; Judith L. Burk; Carla M. Hoehn; Hal D. Carr; Carolyn R. Orth; Scott E. Travis; Maureen C. Cavanaugh; Ivy G. Doak; Joel M. Brisbin; Bertand A. de Peyer; Robert M.R. Waterworth; Ross C. Fields; Cory Dale Breternitz; Thomas C. May; Mark Varien; Richard V. N. Ahlstrom; M. Edward Bussard; G. Timothy Gross; C. Dean Wilson; James Morris; Margaret G. Meador; Richard W. Yarnell; Lynn E. Sebastian; Ruthann Knudson; Sarah Neusius

Field Director(s): Gay Ives; Mark A. Stiger; Roger N. Walkenhorst

Lab Director(s): Janet D. Orcutt; Carl J. Phagen; John P. Bloom; William A. Luscius; Deborah A. Duranceau; Kenneth L. Petersen; Roger A. Moore; Paul J. Farley; John P. Nylander; Eric Blinman; Bruce Benz

Principal Investigator(s): Robert A. Bye; David A. Breternitz; Allen E. Kane; Timothy A. Kohler; William D. Lipe

Project Director(s): Christine K. Robinson; Steven E. James

Sponsor(s): Bureau of Reclamation

Repository(s): Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Co

Submitted To(s): Bureau of Reclamation

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Reclamation(s): 8-07-40-S0562

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