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Prehistory of Colorado provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Colorado's recorded history. Colorado experienced cataclysmic geological events over billions of years, which shaped the land and resulted in diverse ecosystems. The ecosystems included several ice ages, tropical oceans, and a massive volcanic eruption.
Paleo-Indian period – the first people who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americas during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period.Evidence suggests big-game hunters crossed the Bering Strait from Asia into North America over a land and ice bridge (), that existed between 45,000 BCE – 12,000 BCE, [1] following herds of large herbivores far into Alaska.
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century. The Period is defined by the culture enjoyed at the time, from the earliest hunter-gatherers ...
A living Cinnamomum, or cinnamon tree Cinnamomum; Cissus †Cixius – tentative report †Cladius †Cladura †Clastoptera †Cleonus †Closterocoris †Closterocoris elegans – type locality for species †Clubiona †Clytus †Coccinella †Coeliodes; Colaptes. A living Colaptes auratus, or northern flicker †Colaptes auratus †Colaspis ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Colorado contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Colorado and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Because much of the land is arid, and crop yields were highly variable, people supplemented their diets by hunting, foraging and trading for food. [4] By the end of the period, there were multiple-story dwellings made primarily of stone masonry, towers (especially in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah), and family and community kivas.
Cowboy Wash is a group of nine archaeological sites used by Ancestral Puebloans (previously known as Anasazi) in Montezuma County, southwestern Colorado, United States.Each site includes one to three pit houses, and was discovered in 1993 during an archaeological dig.
The Hawkins Preserve includes land that was near a ranch owned by Henry Mitchell. On his land is an archaeological site of 9 medium-sized pueblos called "Mitchell Springs". [26] By the mid-19th century the United States government and Native American tribes were at war over land ownership. People were forced to leave their homelands.