A Corn Cache from Western Colorado

Abstract

For the past nine years the Museum of Archaeology of the Western State College of Colorado, at Gunnison, has been engaged in archaeological excavations in central and western Montrose County. This county adjoins the Utah line and lies in the northwest part of the southwest quarter of the state of Colorado.Six sites have been excavated during the course of this work. The following is a brief summary of the excavations, presented as a background for discussion of a corn cache found in one of the sites during the summer of 1947.

Basket Maker II Sites Near Durango, Colorado. By Earl H. Morris and Robert F. Burgh.

“…Anderson also examined a cache of 14 ears from Cottonwood Cave, western Colorado, excavated by Hurst (Hurst and Anderson, 1949 Later for mulations of corn sequences in the Southwest by Carter (1945, p. 49), by Carter and Anderson (1945, pp. 312-16),…”