Animas-La Plata Project: Ridges Basin excavations, archaic, basketmaker II, and limited activity sitesJames M. Potter This volume of the Animas-La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) describes the results of excavations at one Late Archaic site, three Basketmaker II sites, nineteen Pueblo I limited activity sites, and six undated artifact scatters in Ridges Basin, located approximately 2 miles south of Durango, Colorado. The volume concludes with a summary discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts. |
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Activity Area Analyzed Flakes Angular Debris artifact scatter Auger Testing Backhoe Trench Basketmaker Basketmaker II period bedrock burned adobe Burro Canyon ceramic ceramic sherds charcoal Chert clay loam cm deep Count dates Excavation Units faunal bone faunal remains Feature 13 Figure fill fire pit flaked lithic Flaked Stone Artifact Flaked Tools flakes and cores GEOMORPHOLOGY ground stone ground stone artifacts Hammerstone hearth identified limited activity limited-activity sites Lithic Material loam locally available loci Locus maize mano material types Metaquartzite metate modern ground surface Number obsidian oxidized percent Petrified wood pit Feature pit room pit structure plain grayware PLATA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT pollen post holes projectile points Pueblo I period Quartzite radiocarbon radiocarbon dates recovered Ridges Basin roasting pit rock sandstone sherds Siltstone/Mudstone slab-lined pit soil Stone Artifact Summary stone items Stratigraphy Stratum Subfeatures Surface Collection surface room SWCA SWCA's Table thermal Total Station ture vessel form