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Joe Ben Wheat Site Complex
Joe Ben Wheat Site Complex is a set of archaeological sites dated from AD 600 to 1300 that are located near Yellow Jacket in Montezuma County, Colorado. The complex is also known by its collective site ID of 5MT16722.Mitchell, Mark D''The Archaeology of 5MT1.''Boulder: University of Colorado (CU) Museum. Retrieved December 6, 2011. In 2004, the Joe Ben Wheat Site Complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Discovery A farmer named Mr. Stevenson found a piece of pottery at the site of a house that had burned down near the town of Yellow Jacket, Colorado. In 1953 he sent the pottery to Joe Ben Wheat, Curator of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Wheat recognized that the pottery was probably dated AD 500-750 and accepted an offer from Stevenson to investigate the property in the Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado.Mobley-Tanaka, J.L. & Wilshusen R.H. (2003Joe Ben Wheat’s Excavation of Yellow Jacket Colorado. Retrieved March 27, 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow Jacket, Colorado
Yellow Jacket is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community and a United States Postal Service, U.S. post office located in Montezuma County, Colorado, Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The Yellow Jacket post office has the ZIP Code 81335. Geography Yellow Jacket is located at (37.532871,-108.719845). History A post office called Yellow Jacket has been in operation since 1914. The community was named for the abundance of yellow jackets near the original town site. There are a number of prehistoric archaeological sites of the Ancient Pueblo People (Anasazi) during the Pueblo II Era and Pueblo III Eras near Yellow Jacket that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties: American Dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |