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  2. List of prehistoric sites in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Ute Mountain Ute Mancos Canyon Historic District (Site ID 5MT.4342) La Plata, near Red Mesa and Montezuma: Ancient Pueblo: AD 500–1499: Residential: National, State: 92: Vogel Canyon (Site ID 5OT.551) Otero, near La Junta: Prehistoric: State: 68: West Stoneham Archeological District (Site ID 5WL.2180) Weld, near Stoneham: Paleo-Indian ...

  3. Hovenweep National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The ruins were already known to the Ute and Navajo guides who considered them haunted and urged Huntington to stay away. [9] [35] The name Hovenweep, which means "deserted valley" in the Ute language, was adopted by pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson and William Henry Holmes in 1878. The name is apt as a description of the area's ...

  4. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe - Wikipedia

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    The use of lands in the Four Corners area, where the Ute Mountain Ute tribe now live, though, came later. Most anthropologists agree that Utes were established in the Four Corners area by 1500 C.E. The Ute people were hunters and gatherers who moved on foot to hunting grounds and gathering land based upon the season. The men hunted animals ...

  5. Trail of the Ancients - Wikipedia

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    The monument is co-managed by the Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service, along with a coalition of five local Native American tribes: the Navajo Nation, Hopi, Ute Mountain Ute, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni, all of which have ancestral ties to the region. Nearby ruins include ...

  6. Cañon Pintado - Wikipedia

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    Cañon Pintado, meaning painted canyon, is an archaeological site of Native American rock art located in the East Four Mile Draw, 10.5 miles (16.9 km) south of Rangely in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Led by Ute guides, the Domínguez–Escalante expedition , Spanish missionaries in search of a route to California in 1776, passed through this ...

  7. Ute Mountain (New Mexico) - Wikipedia

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    Ute Mountain is a free-standing, dacitic, extinct Pliocene volcanic cone set within the Taos Plateau volcanic field. [8] Ute Mountain has a base diameter of five miles and topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,500 feet (760 meters) above the surrounding sagebrush-covered basalt plains. [ 2 ]

  8. Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway (New Mexico) - Wikipedia

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    Navajos, from the Athabascan tribal areas in northwestern Canada, migrated into the area about 500 years ago. [5] Other Native Americans include the Utes and Apaches. [6] Native peoples left evidence of their lives in ruins of agricultural communities, broken pieces of pottery, tools, pictographs, and petroglyphs. The landscape includes large ...

  9. List of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Spring Creek Archaeological District, also known as Zabel Canyon Indian Ruins, is located in the San Juan National Forest. The site was inhabited from 300 BC through Pueblo times Ancient Pueblo People. In the protohistoric periods of southwestern Colorado the Ute, Apache and Navajo ranged and lived in the area.