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Volume 1 of Remaking the Mazeway: Skeletal and archaeological evidence for a variant Ancestral Pueblo mortuary rite at Wallace Ruin (USA). (Photographs of Ancestral Pueblo human remains omitted.)
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Abstract
This version of Volume 1 of my doctoral thesis contains no photographs of Ancestral Pueblo human remains.
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From 1990 through 2004, archaeological, geophysical and survey work was conducted at the Mitchell Springs Ruin Group on the south side of Cortez, Colorado. This important site was the center of a dense community of pueblos dating from around A.D. 780 to 1250.
A descriptive report describing the first five years of study was published in 1997 (Dove et al. 1997). The information reported here describes subsequent investigations in areas of the main ruin group which had not been previously studied.
Results of excavations 2015 at Wallace Ruin, Montezuma County, Colorado
In April, May, and June of 1942, salvage excavations were performed under permit from the Secretary of the Interior at five ruins damaged by road construction in lower Mancos Canyon, on the Ute Indian Reservation in southwesternmost Colorado, just south of the Mesa Verde, in Montezuma County. Twenty-four other open sites in the same section of the canyon were surveyed. Cliff dwellings and other sites in side canyons or on mesas were not included, The excavations were carried out for the Indian Service under an interbureau agreement between the National Park Service and the Office of Indian Affairs for cooperation on protection and salvage of archaeological remains along Indian Service road locations. Park Service and Indian Service officials concerned were most cooperative; the four Utes who worked throughout the job, as well as most of the additional Utes and Navahos who were on the job less steadily, proved excellent workmen.
