| HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIONS
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| Year |
Description of Event |
Reference(s) |
1859
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Site was visited by the Macomb Expedition
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Newberry 1876*1:88-89
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1876
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Hayden Survey party passed the site
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Holmes 1981*1:401
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1900, 1903, 1906
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T. Mitchell Prudden mentioned the site
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Prudden 1900*1:3, 1903*1:262-263, 1906*1:185
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1917-1919
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J. W. Fewkes described the site
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Fewkes 1918*1, 1919*1:17
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1924
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Site was mentioned by A.V. Kidder
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Kidder 1924*1:65
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1931
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Field school from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, excavated much of the "square mug house" (the block called the "great tower complex" by Crow Canyon)
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Hurst and Lotrich 1932*1, 1933*1, 1935*1, 1935*2, 1936*1, 1936*2, 1937*1
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1945-6
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Road maintenance rock crusher removed most of a rubble mound forming the east "wing" of the Chacoan great house (Block 1900)
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Arthur Wilson, personal communication 1995
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1954
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Joe Ben Wheat of the University of Colorado Museum began many years of field school excavations at sites 5MT1, 5MT2, and 5MT3--sites that are southwest across Tatum Draw (Wheat never excavated at Site 5MT5)
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Cater 1989*1; Lange et al. 1986*1; Wheat 1955*1, 1984*1
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1954
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Site was recorded and assigned the Smithsonian designation 5MT5 by Joe Ben Wheat
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1954 survey form
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1983
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The Archaeological Conservancy began acquisition of various parcels of Site 5MT5
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1984
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Site was nominated to National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form
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1985
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Site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
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J. Walker, personal communication 2001
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1986
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An updated survey form was completed
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1986 survey form
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1986
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University of Colorado Museum field school mapped main portion the site
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Lange et al. 1986*1:Figure 13
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1987
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Main portion of site was mapped by Rohn
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Ferguson and Rohn 1986*1:129
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1990
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Some human remains removed from site 5MT5 by nonprofessional diggers were analyzed and reported on by University of Colorado student Diana Wilson
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Wilson 1990*1
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1991
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An archaeoastronomy study of the site was published
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Malville 1991*1
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1994
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Crow Canyon Archaeological Center took aerial photographs of Site 5MT5 and generated a 30-cm-contour-interval topographic map from the photos
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1995
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Crow Canyon and The Archaeological Conservancy collaborate to close a 1000-ft gap in the fencing along the northeastern edge of the site (to end loose livestock grazing on the portion of the site owned by the Conservancy)
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Glowacki and Kuckelman 1996*1
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1995-1997
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Crow Canyon conducted testing at the site
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Glowacki and Kuckelman 1996*1; Glowacki 1997*1; Kuckelman 1997*1; Wilshusen 1995*1, 1996*1
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