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Southwestern Pithouses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Alexander Spoehr
Alexander Spoehr*
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Chicago Natural History Museum Chicago, Illinois
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In the January, 1949 number of American Antiquity T. L. Smiley presents a concise description of an early eighth century pithouse at Mesa Verde. He notes the occurrence of a similar pithouse excavated by Brew at Alkali Ridge in southeastern Utah, and a second similar structure described by Morris from the La Plata area. The purpose of this note is to broaden the comparative picture by indicating a third pithouse even more closely resembling the Mesa Verde one. This is Pithouse G, Site , excavated by Martin in 1938 in the Ackmen-Lowry area in southwestern Colorado, not far from Mesa Verde. The Ackmen-Lowry pithouse is nearly identical with the one described by Smiley. Tree-ring dates from the former structure range from A.D. 736 to 768, which make it some 60 years later than the Mesa Verde pithouse, though in the same Basket Maker III period.

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American Antiquity , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , July 1949 , pp. 55
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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