Colorado is home to some of the most culturally sensitive, scientifically significant, and beautiful archaeological sites in the world, ranging from internationally prominent parks and monuments to tens of thousands of undiscovered sites. These places deserve protection, appreciation, interpretation, and respect for their scientific, cultural, and environmental values.
This report presents the results of an intensive level inventory and evaluation of approximately 35 historical resources in the “Old Fort Site,” an area located directly northeast of Old Town Fort Collins that contained the frontier military post established in Read More …
Diary excerpts kept by Bard in 1868, courtesy of the Graduate Department and the Library of Yale University.
In 1864, the U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a village of about 600 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped on the boundary of their reservation along the Big Sandy Creek in present day southeastern Colorado. The unprovoked Read More …
A growing body of research is geared towards bridging the blurred perspectives of archaeology and ethnohistory into cohesive statements about the pre- and post-contact history of the Northern Great Plains to elaborate upon the highly dynamic cultural interactions among and Read More …
Field work for this project consisted of a cultural resource reevaluation of four previously recorded sites, and evaluative testing of site 5EP2524. The cultural resource inventory resulted in the location and recording of 16 archeological sites and 11 isolated finds, Read More …
For the past decade, the University of Northern Colorado has conducted extensive archaeological research on federally-managed lands in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. An important element of those investigations has been identification of physical and ethnographic evidence of historically-documented tribes removed from Read More …
In contrast to the current trend for remote sensing to use smaller scale satellite imagery for large areas, we have been working with imagery with an average scale of 1:330; these images cover less than a pixel on current satellite Read More …
The beaver fur trade in Colorado occurred from about 1800 to 1840. The 27 fur trade posts in and around the state are a testament to the intensity of the trapping. However, beaver trapping camps have rarely been recorded due Read More …
Protohistoric Ancestral Apache Dismal River groups (A.D. 1600–1750) participated in large exchange networks linking them to other peoples on the Plains and U.S. Southwest. Ceramic vessels made from micaceous materials appear at many Dismal River sites, and micaceous pottery recovered Read More …
One of the guiding inquiries for these projects concerned the location and recording of two trails, one in Spring Creek Canyon and one in Gunnison Gulch, that may have been used by Native Americans. DARG conducted an extensive literature review Read More …