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.5MT4614号遗址（草原犬鼠村落，Prairie Dog Hamlet）于1979年由科罗拉多大学在多洛雷斯考古项目（Dolores Archaeological Program, D.A.P.）的支持下开展考古发掘工作。该遗址坐落于科罗拉多州西南部的蒙特苏马县，属于阿纳萨齐（Anasazi）文化传统中的篮子制造者三期晚期至普韦布洛一期早期阶段。 该遗址存在两次居住活动阶段，分别以两处独立的半地穴式房屋（pithouse）及其附属地表建筑与遗迹为代表，另有一次以半地穴建筑未完工工程为代表的活动阶段。尽管两次居住阶段之间存在短暂的文化间断，但根据多洛雷斯考古项目的年代学体系，二者均属于萨亨期（Sagehen Phase）的萨吉尔亚副期（Sagehill Subphase，公元600年—760年）。从空间分布来看，这两次居住阶段均属于西西阿亨社区（West Sagehen Community）的家族居所，该社群为分散式本地聚落，由依托园艺种植为生的农户聚居在耕地附近组成。本次发掘该遗址的目的，在于扩充属于该阿纳萨齐社群的遗址的多洛雷斯考古项目样本库。 本记录的原始信息最初从国家考古数据库报告模块（National Archaeological Database Reports Module, NADB-R）迁移至tDAR平台并完成更新。2015年，为提升tDAR的内容质量，数字古物中心（Center for Digital Antiquity）上传了该文档的副本，并进一步优化了本记录的元数据（metadata）。