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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 ...
Report on file, Office of the State Archaeologist, Colorado Heritage Center, Denver. Waldman, Carl. (2009) [1985]. Atlas of the North American. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-6858-6. Wood-Simpson, Caryl. (1976) Trinchera Cave: A Rockshelter in Southeastern Colorado. Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming.
Rock shelters have been found in Picture Canyon and other nearby locations by hunter-gatherers from the Plains Archaic Period, from 250 B.C. to A.D. 500. Most of the shelters were near sources of water and faced south, which would have been warmed by the sun in the winter.
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons; Black Mountain Rock Art District; Chalfant Petroglyph Site; Chumash Indian Museum; Coso Rock Art District; Hemet Maze Stone; Meadow Lake Petroglyphs; Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) Yellow Jacket Petroglyphs
Indian Petroglyphs and Pictographs: May 3, 1976 : Address Restricted: Penrose vicinity: Known as "Indian Petroglyphs and Pictographs / Turkey Creek Canyon Rock Art District" by History Colorado, [6] while official NRHP listing name is just "Indian Petroglyphs and Pictographs". 32: Dr. Alexander T. King House and Carriage House
The intaglios are located east of the Big Maria Mountains, about 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown Blythe, just west of U.S. Highway 95 near the Colorado River. The Blythe Intaglios are the most well-known of the over 200 intaglios in the Colorado Desert. [1] The Colorado Desert contains the only known desert intaglios in North America. [1]
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is located 9 miles (14 km) west of Pleasant View, Colorado in southwestern Colorado. [4] [5] [a] The monument's northern and eastern boundaries are canyons. Its western boundary is the Colorado-Utah state border and the reservation of the Navajo Nation.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]