National and State Register
Durango Rock Shelters Archaeology Site
La Plata County
Pioneer southwestern archaeologist Earl Morris conducted excavations in 1938 at these two rockshelters, which constitute the type site for dwellings of the Basketmaker II Period of the Ancestral Puebloan tradition. Basketmaker II houses were first identified at these sites.
National Register
Address
Durango vicinity
Site Number
5LP.1434