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Southeast Utah home to ancient site
Work being done at historical Puebloan find
By Rachel Segura
Journal Staff Writer
Over the last decade, new information regarding early forest occupation in Southeast Utah, has slowly started to emerge. The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society hosted guest speaker Don Irwin, Forest Service Archaeological District Heritage Manager in the Moab-Monticello Ranger Districts of Utah, last month to discuss the findings of this site.
Irwin presented a slew of data that represents what could be the second largest collection of archaeological remains in the Southwestern part of the United States. The information on these sites began 40 years ago as impressions formed of possible early Puebloan remains. These historical sites scattered across 90,000 acres of forest land.
Today, specifically in the last 10 years, 35 percent of that area has been surveyed. About 2,236 archaeological sites have been discovered and confirmed in that time. Of those sites, 2,027 are Ancestral Puebloan with more than 1,000 belonging to the Pueblo 1 era.
"The most exciting thing to me (about these findings) is it has never been studied in an intensive way," Irwin explained. "A lot of work has been done in Southwest Colorado to understand this period of Pueblo. Here, (Southeast Utah) we have blank spots that open up our understanding of this history, and has not been studied yet."
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20130311/NEWS01/130319980/Southeast-Utah-home-to-ancient-site
By Rachel Segura
Journal Staff Writer
Over the last decade, new information regarding early forest occupation in Southeast Utah, has slowly started to emerge. The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society hosted guest speaker Don Irwin, Forest Service Archaeological District Heritage Manager in the Moab-Monticello Ranger Districts of Utah, last month to discuss the findings of this site.
Irwin presented a slew of data that represents what could be the second largest collection of archaeological remains in the Southwestern part of the United States. The information on these sites began 40 years ago as impressions formed of possible early Puebloan remains. These historical sites scattered across 90,000 acres of forest land.
Today, specifically in the last 10 years, 35 percent of that area has been surveyed. About 2,236 archaeological sites have been discovered and confirmed in that time. Of those sites, 2,027 are Ancestral Puebloan with more than 1,000 belonging to the Pueblo 1 era.
"The most exciting thing to me (about these findings) is it has never been studied in an intensive way," Irwin explained. "A lot of work has been done in Southwest Colorado to understand this period of Pueblo. Here, (Southeast Utah) we have blank spots that open up our understanding of this history, and has not been studied yet."
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20130311/NEWS01/130319980/Southeast-Utah-home-to-ancient-site
Not the clearest writing, but the Forest Service has an extensive area of previously unrecorded Pueblo I era ruins it is surveying. More data will lead to a better understanding of development in the Four Corners area.
