5MT3890

5MT3890

The site was named by Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants in 1993 for the historic windrows of chained trees piled in east-west swaths across the site.

Habitation site with possible public architecture.

Boundary defined by the extent of artifacts and architectural debris.

5.0 acres

Windrow Ruin covers five acres of a low lying ridge 200 m west of the Dillard site. Like the Dillard site, Windrow Ruin is an intensive Basketmaker III occupation. The entire site is covered with an extremely dense Basketmaker III era midden. Linear concentrations of burned adobe suggest that there are at least three burned roomblocks on site, the northern most being unusually large at 40 m long. In addition, electrical resistivity imaging and soil auger probes confirmed that there are four double chambered pithouses and at least one pitroom on the site. The pithouse associated with the robust northern roomblock is very large (9-x-16-m) putting it into the category of oversized pithouse.

Approximately 5.8 miles west of Cortez, Colorado, south of County Road K.

Private Property, Indian Camp Ranch Lot 7, Sue Anschutz}

2012

Less than .01 percent.

State of Colorado Archaeological Permits were obtained for the 2012 field season to conduct archaeological surface documentation and testing.