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Denver Timberline Books Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel, editors Colorado’s Japanese Americans, Bill Hosokawa Denver: An Archaeological History, Sarah M. Nelson, K. Lynn Berry, Richard F. Carrillo, Bonnie L. Clark, Lori E. Rhodes, and Dean Saitta A Tenderfoot in Colorado, R. B. Townshend Denver An ArchAeologicAl history sarah M. nelson, K. lynn Berry, richard F. carrillo, Bonnie J. clark, lori e. rhodes, and Dean saitta foreword by Stephen J. Leonard University Press of Colorado To the Memory of John L. Cotter © 2008 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 206C Boulder, Colorado 80303 Previously published by the University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of the Association of American University Presses. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Denver : an archaeological history / Sarah M. Nelson . . . [et al.]. p. cm. — (Timberline books) Revised ed. of: Denver / Sarah M. Nelson. c2001. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87081-935-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Denver (Colo.)—Antiquities. 2. Denver Region (Colo.)—Antiquities. 3. Denver (Colo.)—History. 4. Denver Region (Colo.)—His- tory. 5. Frontier and pioneer life—Colorado—Denver Region. 6. Indians of North America—Colorado—Denver Region—Antiquities. I. Nelson, Sarah M., 1931– II. Nelson, Sarah M., 1931– Denver. F784.D447D46 2008 978.8'83—dc22 2008035505 Cover design by Daniel Pratt c o n t e n t S f o r e w o r d by Stephen J. Leonard ix p r e f a c e xi c h a p t e r o n e 1 Greater denver aS a reGion of frontierS and boundarieS c h a p t e r t w o 21 GeoLoGy and environment c h a p t e r t h r e e 61 prehiStoric SiteS c h a p t e r f o u r 111 contact, confLict, and coexiStence c h a p t e r f i v e 139 hiStoric archaeoLoGy c h a p t e r S i x 221 concLuSion a f t e r w o r d 229 John L. cotter r e f e r e n c e S c i t e d 243 i n d e x 269 f o r e w o r d Teachers tell students to dig into a subject to really understand it. Archaeologists take that advice literally. For more than a century, they have shoveled dirt to reveal Colorado’s past. Yet despite all that digging, most Coloradans can claim, at best, only a superficial grasp of the state’s archaeological riches. For this we can, tongue in cheek, blame the Ancestral Puebloans at Mesa Verde whose spectacular cliff dwellings have monopolized the public’s attention. Few people realize that artifacts found in Golden, near Denver, predate Mesa Verde’s Cliff Palace by some 5,000 years. Few know that there are hun- dreds of archaeological sites within thirty-five miles of the state capitol. Denver: An Archaeological History by Sarah Nelson and her five collaborators fills in some of the blanks by presenting the results of more than seven decades of archaeologi- cal work in the Denver area. Here readers will learn not only of ancient sites but also of excavations that illuminate relatively recent nineteenth-century history, such as those at Four Mile House at 715 South Forest Street and at the Tremont House near Speer Boulevard and Auraria Parkway. A beacon on the proximate and distant past, the volume complements other archaeological studies published by the University Press of Colorado, including Dennis J. Stanford and Jane S. Day’s edited volume Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies (1992), Mark Stiger’s Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country (2001), and Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado’s edited volume Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology (2007). It is also a welcome addition to the University Press of Colorado’s Timberline Series, which aims to present scholarly treatments of Colorado’s people and places. —Stephen J. Leonard co-editor, timberLine SerieS
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