{"id":206,"date":"2005-01-25T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/goodman-point-pueblo-near-cortez-colorado\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T15:11:04","slug":"goodman-point-pueblo-near-cortez-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Goodman Point Pueblo, near Cortez, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DenverPost.com - LOCAL NEWS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36~53~2670298,00.html\">DenverPost.com &#8211; LOCAL NEWS<\/a><br \/>\nProtected since 1889, Goodman Point Pueblo slated for initial mapping in April<br \/>\nBy Electa Draper<\/p>\n<p>A 142-acre high-desert parcel a dozen miles northwest of Cortez so impressed federal officials in 1889 that they set it aside and made it off-limits to homesteaders.<\/p>\n<p>They gave this protection to the ancient Indian village more than 15 years before the great pueblos of Chaco Canyon and spectacular cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde were so protected.<\/p>\n<p>The Goodman Point Pueblo thus escaped the brush clearings, crop plantings and excavations that stripped many other Ancestral Puebloan sites in southwestern Colorado, including a thoroughly ransacked Mesa Verde, archaeologist Kristin Kuckelman said.<\/p>\n<p>This spring, for the first time, scientists will begin to comprehensively study Goodman Point. Active from about A.D. 1000 to 1280, it is one of the largest sites in a corner of the state renowned as a treasure trove of pre-Columbian culture.<\/p>\n<p>The National Park Service will work on this six-year phased project with the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, a private nonprofit with a long history of research in the Four Corners region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DenverPost.com &#8211; LOCAL NEWS Protected since 1889, Goodman Point Pueblo slated for initial mapping in April By Electa Draper A 142-acre high-desert parcel a dozen miles northwest of Cortez so impressed federal officials in 1889 that they set it aside and made it off-limits to homesteaders. They gave this protection to the ancient Indian village &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodman Point Pueblo, near Cortez, Colorado<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}