Yellow Jacket Pueblo

1859

Site was visited by the Macomb Expedition

Newberry 1876*1:88-89

1876

Hayden Survey party passed the site

Holmes 1981*1:401

1900, 1903, 1906

T. Mitchell Prudden mentioned the site

Prudden 1900*1:3, 1903*1:262-263, 1906*1:185

1917-1919

J. W. Fewkes described the site

Fewkes 1918*1, 1919*1:17

1924

Site was mentioned by A.V. Kidder

Kidder 1924*1:65

1931

Field school from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, excavated much of the "square mug house" (the block called the "great tower complex" by Crow Canyon)

Hurst and Lotrich 1932*1, 1933*1, 1935*1, 1935*2, 1936*1, 1936*2, 1937*1

1945-6

Road maintenance rock crusher removed most of a rubble mound forming the east "wing" of the Chacoan great house (Block 1900)

Arthur Wilson, personal communication 1995

1954

Joe Ben Wheat of the University of Colorado Museum began many years of field school excavations at sites 5MT1, 5MT2, and 5MT3--sites that are southwest across Tatum Draw (Wheat never excavated at Site 5MT5)

Cater 1989*1; Lange et al. 1986*1; Wheat 1955*1, 1984*1

1954

Site was recorded and assigned the Smithsonian designation 5MT5 by Joe Ben Wheat

1954 survey form

1983

The Archaeological Conservancy began acquisition of various parcels of Site 5MT5

1984

Site was nominated to National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form

1985

Site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

J. Walker, personal communication 2001

1986

An updated survey form was completed

1986 survey form

1986

University of Colorado Museum field school mapped main portion the site

Lange et al. 1986*1:Figure 13

1987

Main portion of site was mapped by Rohn

Ferguson and Rohn 1986*1:129

1990

Some human remains removed from site 5MT5 by nonprofessional diggers were analyzed and reported on by University of Colorado student Diana Wilson

Wilson 1990*1

1991

An archaeoastronomy study of the site was published

Malville 1991*1

1994

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center took aerial photographs of Site 5MT5 and generated a 30-cm-contour-interval topographic map from the photos

1995

Crow Canyon and The Archaeological Conservancy collaborate to close a 1000-ft gap in the fencing along the northeastern edge of the site (to end loose livestock grazing on the portion of the site owned by the Conservancy)

Glowacki and Kuckelman 1996*1

1995-1997

Crow Canyon conducted testing at the site

Glowacki and Kuckelman 1996*1; Glowacki 1997*1; Kuckelman 1997*1; Wilshusen 1995*1, 1996*1