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animas la plata project ridges basin excavations the sacred ridge site
this volume of the animas la plata series swca anthropological research paper no. 10 describes the results of excavations at the largest and most complex site in the animas la plata project area the sacred ridge site 5lp245 . located in ridges basin approximately 8 km 4.8 miles southwest of durango colorado sacred ridge was a multiple habitation site containing 22 pit structures and dating to the early pueblo i period a.d. 750 850 . the volume concludes with a discussion of chronology architecture material culture population subsistence and settlement at the site and in comparison with nearby sites .