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animas la plata project volume iv ridges basin excavations eastern basin sites
this volume of the animas la plata series describes the results of excavations at 12 sites in the eastern end of the ridges basin approximately 2 miles south of durango colorado as part of the animas la plata alp project . between 2002 and 2005 swca excavated these sites all of which dated to the early pueblo i period ad 750 825 . all of the sites in the eastern basin were small habitation sites consisting of one or two pit structures with associated surface structures extramural features and middens . the volume is concluded with a summary discussion of chronology architecture material culture population subsistence and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts .