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Historic & Prehistoric Contexts

600 Northwest Colorado Prehistoric Context (PDF, 104 pgs., 7.4 MB)
   
601 Southwest Colorado Prehistoric Context (PDF, 137 pgs., 12.93 MB)
   
602 West Central Colorado Prehistoric Context (PDF, 72 pgs., 5.58 MB)
   
603 Colorado Mountains Prehistoric Context (PDF, 123 pgs., 6.79 MB)
   
604 Colorado Plains Prehistoric Context (PDF, 186 pgs., 7.41 MB)
   
605 Colorado Historic Archaeology Context (PDF, 167 pgs., 6.19 MB)
   
606 Colorado Plateau Country Historic Context (PDF, 123 pgs., 3.38 MB)
   
607 Colorado Southern Frontier Historic Context (PDF, 166 pgs., 8.52 MB)
   
608 Colorado Mountains Historic Context (PDF, 137 pgs., 7.6 MB)
   
609 Colorado Plains Historic Context (PDF, 152 pgs., 8.25 MB)
   
610 Colorado Engineering Context (PDF, 208 pgs., 11.7 MB)
   
611 Colorado Urbanization & Planning Context (PDF, 375 pgs., 20.04 MB)
   
612 Weld County, Colorado, Historic Agriculture Context (PDF, 41 pgs., 488.18 kb)
   
620 Routt and Moffat Counties, Colorado, Coal Mining Historic Context (PDF, 95 pgs., 13.66 MB)
   
628 Order form for the following publications from CCPA:
  • Contexts for Colorado’s River Basins (5 volumes) - 
   includes the Arkansas, Northern Colorado, Rio Grande, Platte, and Southern
   Colorado River basins
• Colorado History: A Context for Historical Archaeology
• Ancient Colorado, an Illustrated Overview of Colorado’s Prehistory

Each volume of prehistory and the one volume of historical archaeology for the state provide a comprehensive review of important sites and projects in each region, and a synthesis of our understanding of the prehistoric archaeology of the 5 river basins, historic archaeology for the state, and suggestions for future research.

 

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