| FIELD METHODS
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| North Indicator |
True north (14 degrees declination) (USGS Quadrangle Map: Mud Creek, Colorado, 7.5 minute, 1979.
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| Grid |
Grid rotated 2.3762 degrees counter clockwise around 'Dillard Gate Point': UTM Zone 12, 707583 mE/ 4135275 mN/ 1809.12 vertical datum. NAD83.
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| Mapping Techniques |
Mapping at 5MT3890 was conducted with a Topcon GTS-303 total station surveying instrument and data collector. Prior to general mapping, Datums 1 and 2 on 5MT10647, which oriented grid north for the Basketmaker Communities Project, were laid in with a Lietz one-minute transit. Due to this handheld method, grid north is rotated 2.3762 counterclockwise around a point established on the south gate to Lot 6 driveway. The primary datum (Datum 1) is 3m south-southeast of the Great Kiva at 5MT10647. The coordinates of this datum were set at 1400N, 500E, 100 above datum (meters); these numbers were large enough to ensure that the grid for this site could be extended and used for mapping and excavations at all sites within the Indian Camp Ranch Development without necessitating the use of negative coordinates or elevations on any site. Datum 2 (and backsite) was set 25 m northwest of the Great Kiva at 5MT10647 with coordinates of 1426.0909N, 465.5016E, 100.47 above datum. Datum 6 was set at the south end of the roomblock at site 5MT2032 on the ridge south of Jane Dillard’s house. The coordinates of Datum 6 were set at 1423.8648N, 203.1950E, 110.90 above datum. Datums 1, 2, and 6 are rebar stakes mounted in concrete; all three were left in place at the end of the Basketmaker Communities Project to facilitate future orientation to the project’s grid. In all, 69 primary mapping datums were set in as part of the Basketmaker Communities Project. Two temporary datums were set at 5MT3890.
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| Clearing of Vegetation |
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| Reclamation |
None required.
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| Surface Indications |
Windrow Ruin covers five acres of a low lying ridge 200 m west of the Dillard site. Like the Dillard site, Windrow Ruin is an intensive Basketmaker III occupation. The entire site is covered with an extremely dense Basketmaker III era midden. Linear concentrations of burned adobe suggest that there are at least three burned roomblocks on site, the northern most being unusually large at 40 m long. In 2013, 4800 square meters of the site was imaged with an RM15-D Resistance Meter by CCAC staff to locate buried architecture. One oversized pithouse and three double chambered pithouses were located.
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| Modern Ground Surface Collections |
None
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| Treatment of Disturbed Areas |
Development and landscaping just north of the house on the property made the resitivity imaging and targeted auger testing of the southern most pithouse impossible.
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| Areas Disturbed by Crow Canyon |
Crow Canyon staff parked in the driveway at the north end of the site. Foot traffic acros the site was heavy over a two week period. Subsurface deposits marginally disturbed by seventy soil auger probes.
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| Areas and Percent Damaged by Vandals |
There is overwhelming evidence that the old growth pinion and juniper forest across the site was chained sometime between the 1920s and 1980s. Chained trees were piled in windrows and subsequently burned by Archie Hanson during the development of Indian Camp Ranch around 1990. An attempt was made to avoid the site when the driveway and house were built on the property but the west and south ends of the site were truncated by this activity. In 1994 a waterline north of the house bisected two features, a burial and a large basin feature. Both were documented by Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants and reburied in place. A square stone enclosure was constructed over the burial feature and additional fill was mounded inside.
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| Artifacts Not Collected |
No artifacts collected.
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| Types of Surfaces Recognized |
NA
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| How Artifact-Surface Associations Were Defined |
NA
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| Tree-Ring Sampling |
No samples collected
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| Archaeomagnetic Sampling |
No samples collected.
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| Archaeobotanical (Flotation) Sampling |
Soil containing charred botanical remains was collected from auger probes and and analyzed as floatation samples.
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| Pollen Sampling |
No samples collected.
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| Other Sampling |
Approximately 40 samples from Basketmaker Communities Project excavations and testing were dated with Accelerated Mass Spectrometry (AMS). The Windrow Site produced four samples. AMS samples were selected from charred annual botanical remains. Samples were processed and calibrated by Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Miami, Florida
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