The Donovan Site (5LO204)

The Donovan site (5LO204) is a Late Prehistoric animal processing campsite located in northeastern Colorado. The site has been extensively excavated by the University of Wyoming High Plains Archaeology Project since 1992. Containing at least 11 stratified occupation surfaces dating between about A.D. 1000 and 1300, Donovan represents a frequently visited western expansion of the Upper Republican phase of the Central Plains tradition. Material culture includes thousands of fragmented bison bones, lithic debitage, diagnostic ceramics, side-notched projectile points, and bifacial knives. Long thought to represent the activities of either indigenous High Plains occupants or central Plains hunting parties, this site and others on the western High Plains provide evidence for the complex interactions between foraging and farming communities on the Plains.Keywords: Upper RepublicanCentral Plains traditionHigh PlainsLate Prehistoricforagers and farmers

Archaeology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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