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<< Text Pages >> Dillard - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 08 July 2012  Page Views: 2388

Multi-periodSite Name: Dillard Alternative Name: 5MT10647, Indian Camp Ranch Archaeological District
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 6.481 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Cortez, CO
Latitude: 37.350000N  Longitude: 108.65W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Montezuma County, Colorado.
A Basketmaker III village farmstead site dating to the 7th Century AD. The site includes middens, remains of several pithouse structures, and a single wet laid masonry 'Great Kiva' structure 11 meters in diameter. This kiva may indicate the Dillard site was more of a village with several family groups, and possibly the central location for ceremonies associated with other farmsteads in the area.

The Basketmaker III era (500-750AD) is particularly important as it leads to the Pueblo era. In the Mesa Verde area is marks a dramatic population increase, the addition of ceramics as a common craft, and an increasing reliance on corn and beans which had been cultivated in earlier periods but not to the extent found in this period. The presence of a large kiva structure at Dillard is out of place as similar structures have been dated 100 to 200 years after the dates of the Dillard Site.

Discovered during a 1991 site survey, 2011 was the first year of excavations. The excavations are being carried out by the researchers and field schools of the nearby Crow Canyon Archaeological Center as part of a large project, "The Basketmaker Communities Project: Early Pueblo Society in the Mesa Verde Region."

The Dillard Site is part of the Indian Camp Archaeological District which is listed as a National Register of Historic Places site. This area is all privately owned land within a residential development, but with covenants that appear to provide protections for archaeological finds and limits to development.

Note: The location given is only the general area of the Dillard Site. There is no normal access to the general public, except as part of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center activities.

Sources:

Shanna Diederichs and Shirley Powell, "New Clues to Early Pueblo Communities," Popular Archaeology, Dec 5, 2011.

Shanna Diederichs and Steven Copeland, "The Basketmaker Communities Project Annual Report, 2011 Field Season," copyright 2012, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

Shanna Diederichs and Steven Copeland, "The Basketmaker Communities Project Annual Report, 2012 Field Season," copyright 2013, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

Note: 2012 Field Season report published.
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Re: Dillard Site by Parsa on Sunday, 07 July 2019
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The site of the main multi-habitation Dillard Site (site# 5MT10647) possesses public architecture (a rare Basketmaker III great kiva). It's location is centered at 37.353758, -108.651849. The other habitation sites (aka hamlets) are mostly located to the north and east of this site. The most easterly large habitation (5MT3875) is at 37.352493, -108.623528, not far from the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, which is doing fieldwork on these sites. All habitations are in privately owned tracts located in Indian Ranch Camp.
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Time Team America Visits Dillard by bat400 on Wednesday, 27 August 2014
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The Lost Pueblo Village

In Cortez, Colorado, the Team explores the Dillard site, a village that some 1500 years ago was home to people of the Basketmaker III era, a culture that advanced itself with technologies like farming, pottery, and the bow and arrow. The innovations of the Basketmaker III era led to the complex, beautiful Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings of the nearby Mesa Verde region. Recent discoveries at the Dillard site—located at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center—lead researchers to ask: was this site more than just a village? Was this concentrated settlement the scene of a turning point in human history? Time Team America hopes to help solve the mystery.

Now that this episode has been shown on television, you should be able to view the episode from their website: The Lost Pueblo Village.
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