Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-029: Excavations at Prairie Dog Hamlet (Site 5Mt4614), a Basketmaker III / Pueblo I Habitation Site

Prairie Dog Hamlet, Site 5MT4614, was excavated in 1979 by the University of Colorado under the auspices of the Dolores Archaeological Program (D.A.P.). Located in Montezuma County in southwestern Colorado, the site dates to the late Basketmaker III-early Pueblo I periods of the Anasazi tradition.

The site had two occupations, represented by two separate pithouses with associated surface structures and features, and a single episode that is represented by the partial construction of a pitstructure. Although the two occupations were separated by a short cultural hiatus, both were components of the Sagehill Subphase (A.D. 600-760) of the Sagehen Phase, according to D.A.P. temporal systematics. Spatially, the two occupations represent family habitations in the West Sagehen Community, a dispersed local community which consisted of horticulturally based households located near cultivated fields. The site was excavated to expand the D.A.P. sample of sites which were a part of this Anasazi community.

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.