Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-040: Excavations at Hawk House (Site 5MT4681), an Archaic-Anasazi Limited Activity Site

Hawk House (Site 5MT4681) is a multifunctional limited activity site located in extreme southwestern Colorado near the present town of Dolores. The site was excavated in September of 1979 as a part of the Dolores Project Cultural Resources Mitigation Program.

The flaked lithic tool assemblage consisted of highly curated items associated with hunting and game processing; these could date to either the Archaic or to a highy specialized Anasazi group. The nonflaked lithic tool assemblage contained predominately food-processing tools characteristic of the Archaic Tradition.

Ceramic and architectural data indicate site usage between A.D. 850-900, or during the McPhee Phase (A.D. 850-970), according to Dolores Archaeological Program temporal systematics.

The paucity of features at Hawk House indicates that the site had restricted use, but the material culture assemblage reflects both hunting and food-processing activities, possibly occurring as early as Archaic times and also during the McPhee Phase.

Originally the information in this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. In 2015, as part of its effort to improve tDAR content, the Center for Digital Antiquity uploaded a copy of the document and further improved the record metadata.