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Cedar Point Village is an
Cedar Point Village is an archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...
located in Elbert County, Colorado near Limon. It is a prehistoric residential site with artifacts of the Dismal River culture
The Dismal River culture refers to a set of cultural attributes first seen in the Dismal River area of Nebraska in the 1930s by archaeologists William Duncan Strong, Waldo Rudolph Wedel and A. T. Hill. Also known as Dismal River aspect and Dis ...
and likely inhabited by early Apachean
The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan homelands in the north into th ...
people.
Cedar Point Village, declared "the most spectacular Dismal River site in Colorado," was a small village with 7 round houses.Cassells, E. Steve. (1997). ''The Archaeology of Colorado'', Revised Edition. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Books. pp. 236-237. . The village was connected to the Dismal River culture through the Dismal River type of pottery and the side-notched, triangular and unnotched projectile point
In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow. They are thus different from weapons presumed to have been kept in the ...
s.
The site was excavated in 1952 by Herbert W. Dick, curator of the University of Colorado museum from 1949 to 1953. When Dick left his position at the museum, Joe Ben Wheat led the excavation.Cassells, E. Steve. (1997). ''The Archaeology of Colorado'', Revised Edition. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Books. pp. 320. .
See also
* Franktown Cave, another Dismal River culture site in Colorado *Jicarilla Apache
Jicarilla Apache (, Jicarilla language: Jicarilla Dindéi), one of several loosely organized autonomous bands of the Eastern Apache, refers to the members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation currently living in New Mexico and speaking a Southern Athaba ...
* List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
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 ...
* Prehistory of Colorado
References
Paleo-Indian archaeological sites in Colorado Archaeological sites in Colorado {{Colorado-stub