Rare 5000 year old settlement found in Colorado
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Multi-periodCountry: United States State: Colorado Type: Ancient Village or SettlementInternal Links:
Five thousand years ago, a band of ancient people built homes on the edge of a stream in what is now the Denver suburb of Parker. It was not a temporary camp, like so many of the archaeological discoveries made from that period. People here made large houses, some of them 24 feet across, with wood posts and walls of brush or hide.
They probably spent months in the area and may have returned, again and again, over centuries.
The experts at a construction site here have about a month or two to make sense of butchered bison bones, spear points, grinding stones and pit houses. After that, the site will probably be demolished to make way for Parker's new reservoir complex.
"This was a real special place. There's a lot here," said Doug Voss, reservoir project superintendent for Weaver General Construction Co.
His company hired Centennial Archaeology to scour the construction zone for important historic material and has increased security because of recent vandalism at the dig site.
The artifacts found in Parker - the toe bone of an ancient bison, hundreds of spear points and especially the rare home sites - will help archaeologists understand a period of time about which they know relatively little, said Erik Gantt, lead archaeologist for Centennial.
The people who lived on Colorado's plains 5,000 years ago were nomadic hunters and gatherers, he said. They apparently lived in small family groups, hunting everything from rabbits to bison and collecting seeds and berries.
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