Excavations at the Lodaiska Site in the Denver, Colorado, Area

About this eBook

Author

Irwin-Williams, Cynthia, 1936-1990

Title

Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado area

Original Publication

United States: Denver Museum of Natural History,1959.

Credits

WebRover, Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Ute Indians

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69574

Release Date

December 18, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado, Area
2. 2.Acknowledgments
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.TABLES
6. 6.Investigations At The LoDaisKa Site
7. 7.Introduction — History of Investigation — Physiography — Fauna and Flora of the Region — Description of the Site — Method of Excavation ( Fig. 4 ) — Preliminary Discussion of the Stratigraphy — Objectives of the Monograph
8. 8.THE LODAISKA SITE FEATURES — Hearths ( Fig. 13 ) — Cists ( Fig. 14 )
9. 9.TYPOLOGY — Method
10. 10.Dart Points — Knives ( Figs. 28-31 )
11. 11.TABLE I — SCRAPERS — Spoke-shaves ( Figs. 37 , 39 ) — Drills ( Fig. 38 ) — Perforators ( Figs. 38 , 39 ) — “Gravers” ( Fig. 38 ) — Prismatic Flakes ( Figs. 40 and 41 ) — Choppers or Hammerstones ( Fig. 42 ) — Cores
12. 12.TABLE II — Milling Stones ( Figs. 43 , 44 , 45 ) — Handstones ( Fig. 46 )
13. 13.TABLE III
14. 14.TABLE IV
15. 15.TABLE V — Shaft-smoother — Pigment Stones ( Fig. 48 ) — BONE ARTIFACTS — Beads ( Fig. 49 ) — Used Bone Fragments — Notched Bone — Rib-scapula Cutting Tools ( Fig. 50 ) — Gaming Pieces ( Figs. 51 , 52 ) — Awls ( Figs. 49 , 53 and 54 ) — Cut Bone — Tools of Antler and Bone — Flakers ( Fig. 55 ) — Problematical Objects ( Fig. 51 ) — Mica Fragments ( Fig. 51 ) — Crystal ( Fig. 56 ) — Clay Ball ( Fig. 57 ) — Wood Fragments ( Fig. 58 ) — Leather — Cordage — POTTERY — Plain Pottery ( Figs. 59 and 60 ) — Surface Roughened Pottery ( Figs. 61-65 )
16. 16.Geology of the LoDaisKa Site [2]
17. 17.Mechanical and Chemical Analyses of the Deposits of the LoDaisKa Site — Introduction — Sampling
18. 18.TABLE VIa
19. 19.TABLE VIb — Results and Discussion
20. 20.Vertebrate Fossils from the Rockshelter at the LoDaisKa Site [3] — Classification used in this report:
21. 21.TABLE VII—Faunal Remains, LoDaisKa
22. 22.Plant Remains from the LoDaisKa Site
23. 23.Table VIII—Floral Remains
24. 24.Fossil Pollen and Spores from the LoDaisKa Site, Colorado — Introduction — Techniques — Identification of Large Grass Pollen — Sampling (Author’s Note) — Discussion — ETHNOGRAPHIC COMPARISONS — On the Ethnology of the Ute — Subsistence Pattern — Hunting and Gathering — Food Preparation — Shelter — Fire Making and Other Technologies — Pottery — Skin Preparation and Other Technology — Dress — Games and Dances — Social Organization — Religion — Language — Disposal of the Dead — On the Ethnology of the Pawnee — Subsistence Agriculture — Hunting — Food Preparation — Shelter — Clothing — Technology — Trade — Social and Political Organization — Religion — DATING THE LoDaisKa REMAINS — RECONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION — Culture Complex A — Cultural Reconstruction — Culture Complex B — Cultural Reconstruction — Complex C — Cultural Reconstruction — Complex D — Cultural Reconstruction — Other Remains — DISCUSSION — Traditions at LoDaisKa — The Site in a Larger Context
25. 25.BIBLIOGRAPHY
26. 26.Untitled

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