Animas-La Plata Project: Ridges Basin excavations, western basin sites

Download or read book Animas-La Plata Project: Ridges Basin excavations, western basin sites written by James M. Potter and published by Swca Anthropological Research. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Animas-La Plata series describes the results of excavations at 9 sites at the western end Ridges Basin approximately 2 miles south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the Animas-La Plata (ALP) Project. The Western Cluster encompassed two and possiblythree groupings of single small Pueblo I habitations around thevillage site known as the Sacred Ridge site. The volume is concluded with a summary discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts.