| ABOUT THIS STRUCTURE
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| General Location
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Upper west side. On the talus slope, at base of the cliff.
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| Specific Location
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North of Nonstructure 3 area.
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| Interpretive Type
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Not assigned.
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| Structure Use
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Items associated with the latest floor include a complete bone awl, an incomplete bone awl, a complete bone scraper, a complete one-hand mano, and an incomplete stone disk; roof fall artifacts that may have once rested on or in the roof include a couple of awls (one complete, one incomplete), a complete biface, a complete projectile point, a couple of complete cores, an incomplete projectile point, a partial vessel, and two modified bone fragments that could have been part of a flute; most of these items suggest domestic activities took place during the final use of the structure; the purpose of the pits on Surface 2 is not known, however, one of the pits may have been a sipapu; the presence of a fire-reddened area on the floor suggests the presence of a thermal feature, possibly the edge of a hearth.
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| Dating
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| Abandonment
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Several complete tools and a couple of incomplete tools were left on the kiva floor and possibly the kiva roof; based on roof fall deposits, it appears that some of the roof was burned, however, no primary beams were found, suggesting they were salvaged; in addition, some of the beam fragments in roof fall were not burned, which suggests parts of the roof naturally deteriorated.
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| Postabandonment
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Kiva filled with roof and wall fall and natural deposits; some secondary refuse from further upslope may have been naturally redeposited in the upper fill of this structure.
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| Excavation Details
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| Groups to Which This Study Unit was Assigned
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See The Archaeology of Woods Canyon Pueblo (specifically the chapters on architecture, chronology, and artifacts) for more information on study unit groupings at Woods Canyon Pueblo.
| Type |
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Description |
area
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5
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Area of upper west side
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section
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UW
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Upper west side
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subperiod
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9
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Late Pueblo III (A.D. 1225-1280)
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