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An Early Occupied Cave: Site 12051

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Alden C. Hayes
Alden C. Hayes*
Affiliation:
Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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Abstract

Surface indications at Site 1205, a small cave on Wetherill Mesa, were a heavily smoked cave roof, deep deposit on the floor and trash slope, with an absence of pottery. There was no evidence of structures. A test trench in the trash revealed pottery-hearing levels near the surface, with an underlying stratum containing only charcoal and burned sandstone. The possibility of a preceramic occupation led to excavation. Use of the cave from the Piedra through Mesa Verde phases, with estimated dates from the 8th into the 13th centuries, was shown. Evidence for earlier use was inconclusive.

Type
2 Anthropology
Information
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 19: Contributions of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project , October 1965 , pp. 5 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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Footnotes

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This is Contribution No. 9 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.

References

Schoenwetter, James 1960 Pollen Stratigraphy of the Wetherill Mesa Region. Unpublished manuscript, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.Google Scholar