Date of Award
1-1-2014
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
First Advisor
Lawrence Conyers, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Bonnie Clark
Third Advisor
Mario Valdez
Fourth Advisor
Darrin Hicks
Keywords
Cultural transitions, Early ceramic, Palmer Divide, Rockshelter, Welcome Home Ranch
Abstract
Welcome Home Ranch rockshelter is located in the Palmer Divide region of Colorado. The archaeological evidence on site suggests that this rockshelter was occupied between the Late Archaic period (c. 1000 BC – AD 150) and Early Ceramic period (c. AD 150- 1150). Excavations at Welcome Home Ranch provided a dataset of lithics, ceramics, and features with which to test ideas about prehistoric life during this transitional time frame between the Archaic stage and the Late Prehistoric stage. It is during this transitional time period, c. AD 150, that the Palmer Divide region and its prehistoric residents experienced a variable climate, a change in demographics, technology, settlement, and economy. Through a combination of methods and methodologies, this paper seeks to use Welcome Home Ranch as a case study in order to test hypotheses surrounding these changes in prehistoric life.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Katherine V. Mayo
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
269 p.
Recommended Citation
Mayo, Katherine V., "Welcome Home Ranch Rockshelter: Examinations of Prehistoric Cultural Transitions in the Palmer Divide, Colorado" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 411.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/411
Copyright date
2014
Discipline
Archaeology