Test Excavation of Seven Prehistoric Sites on the Fort Carson MilitaryReservation, El Paso and Pueblo Counties, Colorado

摘要

Evaluate test excavations were conducted at seven prehistoric sites on the FortCarson Military Reservation, Colorado. Four of the sites (5PE895, 5PE904, 5PE909, 5PE910) are situated in rock shelters and three (5PE63, 5PE868) are in open settings. Radiocarbon dates indocate human occupation of Fort Carson during all temporal periods from the Early Archaic to the Middle Ceramic, a span of approximately 5,000 years (ca. 5700 B.P. (before present) 750 B.P.).