By Florence C. Lister, P. G. Duke
ISBN-10: 0585027102
ISBN-13: 9780585027104
ISBN-10: 0870814486
ISBN-13: 9780870814488
Durango, Colorado, positioned within the 4 corners zone of southwest Colorado, has lengthy been a space of curiosity to specialist archaeologists and non-professional fanatics alike. as well as its average attractiveness, the realm has been host to a few ancestral Pueblo Indian teams relationship again to prehistoric occasions. within the Thirties, archeological execs made up a small, starting to be workforce whereas the ranks of novice lovers and pothunters, those that dug old websites for artifacts out of interest or for financial achieve, swelled. Prehistory in danger is the 1st actual account of the early interval of archeological examine of the Durango sector. the realm, nonetheless rife with unexplored websites, drew many self-trained amateurs and pothunters. As an increasing number of traditionally major artifacts have been stumbled on, sour disagreement and animosity constructed among execs and fanatics. Prehistory at risk follows the attention-grabbing drama and re-evaluates facts from favorite archeologists of that point, and takes under consideration more moderen examine to attract new conclusions concerning the prehistoric cultural styles published within the southern Colorado zone of Durango.
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Antiquities. )--Antiquities. Page ii Artist's conception of a Basketmaker II habitation such as once existed in the FallsCreek rock shelters. Page iii Prehistory In Peril The Worst and Best of Durango Archaeology by Florence C. O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 (303) 530-5337 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
Hard currency was much needed because the worst financial depression of the nineteenth century had closed many Colorado mines, smelters, and businesses. 2 In the small town of Durango, while treasure hunters staked their claims, a new breed of armchair archaeologists vicariously shared their adventures and tried to learn something of the mysterious past of this borderland to which they recently had moved. 3 Charles McLoyd, Howard Graham, and D. W. Ayres, present at the first meeting, between them already had made ten arduous pack trips into many alcoves weathered into the broken lands of southeast Utah.
The country was too vast, too remote, too alluring in its rich trove of relics to be controlled merely by a piece of legislation. It was not just cowboys, traders, and adventure seekers who continued digging in out-of-the-way places to add to private holdings; some federal employees and scientists of varied backgrounds did their share of vacuuming up artifacts. Moreover, respected institutions of learning bought collections without verification of sources or subsidized diggers to unearth specimens that often later were stowed away in museum vaults, never to be seen by the public or analyzed by students.
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