Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado area

Name: Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado area
Author: Cynthia Irwin-Williams H. T. Irwin

by Cynthia Irwin-Williams H. T. Irwin

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Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado, Area
Acknowledgments
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLES
Investigations At The LoDaisKa Site
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
THE LODAISKA SITE FEATURES
Hearths (Fig. 13)
Cists (Fig. 14)
TYPOLOGY
Method
Dart Points
Knives (Figs. 28-31)
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
TABLE II
Milling Stones (Figs. 43, 44, 45)
Handstones (Fig. 46)
TABLE III
TABLE IV
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)
Geology of the LoDaisKa Site[2]
Mechanical and Chemical Analyses of the Deposits of the LoDaisKa Site
Introduction
Sampling
TABLE VIa
TABLE VIb
Results and Discussion
Vertebrate Fossils from the Rockshelter at the LoDaisKa Site[3]
Classification used in this report:
TABLE VII—Faunal Remains, LoDaisKa
Plant Remains from the LoDaisKa Site
Table VIII—Floral Remains
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
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