National and State Register

Tabeguache Cave II

Montrose County

This large and deep rockshelter, occupied as early as AD 600 to perhaps AD 1500, yielded brownware ceramics, provoking questions as to whether the Pueblos abandoned their territory or were assimilated into a new population and how these changes related to the Ute presence in the area.

A black and white photo of the cave with some people standing on the right near the entrance.

Tabeguache Cave II (1943 photograph.)