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Multi-periodSite Name: Sacred Ridge Alternative Name: 5lp245Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 29.353 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Durango, Co
Latitude: 37.224000N Longitude: 107.9407W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Ancient Village in La Plata County.
Situated overlooking what is now known as the Ridges Basin, this settlement had a least 22 pit houses and a stone building that may have been a tower of several stories. Around 800AD the settlement was wiped out in what appears to have been a single massed attack.
The site was excavated as part of the Animas-LaPlata water project. Once the water storage area has filled the Ridges Basin, Sacred Ridge will be left as an island. The location given is an assumption based on archaeological site description and FEMA floodplain graphics.
Note: “It was not an idyllic period where you hunt and kill a bunny, then sit around a campfire and sing ‘Kumbaya.’” See comment for article on the evidence for cannibalism as part of "ethnic cleansing".
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