Excavation of Mesa Verde Pit Houses

Lancaster, James A.; Watson, Don

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“…Subsequent investigation and excavation were carried out by Fewkes during the early 1900's. More recent workers have been Nusbaum (1926; no detailed report made of this excavation), Lancaster and Watson (1942), O'Bryan (1948; field report not yet completed), and Smiley (1949).…”

Section: Mesa Verdementioning

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Pre-Columbian Towers in the Southwest

Schulman

1950

Am. antiq.

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Towers have long been an important and integral feature of architecture. The earliest record of towers is in Mesopotamia with the Statue of Gudea at a date of approximately 2700 B.C. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1948, p. 330). From there they may be found ranging over the entire world. They have met numerous demands, but from their very beginning towers have served two principal functions: military and religious.A focal area of tower building was in the southwestern United States. Here towers have presented numerous problems which, despite comment and work, still remain largely unanswered. Their intriguing possibilities, however, early attracted the attention of writers. A brief history would include such men as Jackson (1876), Holmes (1879), and Morgan (1881), who first called public attention to these towers. Their accounts were descriptive and mention ruins of the Hovenweep, Mesa Verde, and McElmo areas. Moorehead, in a series of six articles entitled “In Search of a Lost Race” for Illustrated American of 1892, discussed ruins of the McElmo.

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Section: Mesa Verdementioning

confidence: 99%

Pre-Columbian Towers in the Southwest

Schulman

1950

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James Allen Lancaster 1894–1992

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American Antiquity

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When he was seven, his family moved to the Oklahoma panhandle to homestead. Life was tough in those days, and Al spent more time helping with the farm than he did in school. At 21 years of age he finished the eighth grade-the last of his formal education. He moved to Baca County, Colorado, in 1916 to file his own homestead claim, then served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1918. In 1922 he decided to settle in southwest Colorado to try his luck at becoming a bean farmer. He found land near the Lowry Ruin in the beautiful Montezuma Valley northwest of Cortez, not too distant from Mesa Verde. He married Alice Pigg, who would be his lifelong partner, and the two of them patented their land to begin farming and raise a family. Al earned a reputation as a hard worker, a good mule skinner, and an expert stonemason, skills sorely needed to supplement the meager living a family could gain from farming the country abandoned by the Anasazi six centuries earlier. In 1928 a young archaeologist named Paul Martin came to southwest Colorado to undertake field

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Excavation of Mesa Verde Pit Houses

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Pre-Columbian Towers in the Southwest

Pre-Columbian Towers in the Southwest

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James Allen Lancaster 1894–1992

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