The Dolores Archaeological Program

Part of the Dolores Archaeological Program project

Author(s): Allen E. Kane

Year: 1979

Summary

The University of Colorado was awarded the contract in the spring of 1978 by the Bureau of Reclamation to conduct historical and archaeological fieldwork and analysis before the area was impacted by construction activities. The four corners area contains evidence of use and occupation by Paleoindian, Archaic, and Shoshonean-Athabasean individuals. By the presentation of this paper, 850 sites were recorded by the Dolores Archaeological project that were going to be impacted by construction, and an estimation of 1300 total sites to be found. The main research focus of the project was on Anasazi communities located in the northern portion of the Mesa Verde area using five major problem domains: 1) economy and adaptations, 2) demography, 3) social organization, 4) foreign relations, and 5) cultural process.

Cite this Record

The Dolores Archaeological Program. Allen E. Kane. Presented at Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver. 1979 ( tDAR id: 502862) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8502862

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Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Historic • 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
A.D. 1500 - Historic • 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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