DARG Database Access
Please contact our office for database access: darg.colorado@gmail.com
Southwestern Chronometric Database
DARG's comprehensive, multi-year project to compile radiocarbon dates recorded in legacy cultural resource management reports and other documents from archaeological sites throughout Colorado has compiled 3430 radiocarbon dates from 953 archaeological sites in Colorado. This database is accessible through the History Colorado Compass web site and includes full locational data.
Additionally, DARG also maintains a radiocarbon database for Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico which can be accessed through a password protected login (below). It displays Google maps with limited zoom capabilities and does not show UTMs or latitude/longitude coordinates. It provides researchers with a regional temporal resource without compromising site security. The database currently contains 7332 dates from 1845 sites and is updated as new data become available.
Colorado Tree-Ring Database
DARG's comprehensive, multi-year project to compile tree-ring dates from archaeological sites throughout Colorado has compiled 14,560 tree-ring dates from 409 archaeological sites in Colorado. This database is accessible through the History Colorado Compass web site and contains full locational data.
DARG also created and maintains a public tree-ring database for Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. It displays Google maps with limited zoom capabilities and does not show UTMs or latitude/longitude coordinates. Through the password protected link below, it provides researchers with a regional temporal resource without compromising site security. The database currently contains 34,175 dates from 1380 sites and is updated as new data become available.
Western Slope Bison Database Project
DARG's ongoing project of bison remains analyses from archaeological sites in Colorado. Data display cultural and environmental modification of bison bones and a list of associated radiocarbon dates.
Uncompahgre Plateau Project: Projectile Point Typology and Chronometry
This is one of a series of projects undertaken by Dominquez Archaeological Research Group (DARG) to expand understanding of Uncompahgre Plateau prehistory. The initial objective was a reassessment the Uncompahgre Complex as defined by Marie Wormington and Robert Lister in the 1950s and later expanded upon by William Buckles in 1971. The project quickly evolved into a focus on the development of temporally diagnostic projectile points. Initially, 250 projectile points were analyzed via hierarchical cluster analysis followed by discriminant function analysis. Forty-one radiocarbon samples from the Buckles' collection held by the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, Dolores, Colorado were submitted for AMS dating. These and an additional 247 Uncompahgre Plateau dates available on the Colorado Radiocarbon Database provided the chronometric underpinning for the project.
One of the results of this project was the creation of a database which allows users to access and classify projectile point types, as well as perform site attribute and map queries. Zoom function has been limited and a password is required to access the data. Contact our office for details.
Ute Trails of the Uncompahgre Plateau
DARG pursued this project for the purpose of examining historic Ute Trails in Mesa and Delta Counties, Colorado. This research project was funded through History Colorado's Ute STEM Project. The objective of this study was to identify clusters of activity in the archaeological record that reflect the movement of extended family grroups upon the landscape that are not usually identified using traditional site recording methods.
The assessment of previous archaeological inventory work on the east side of the Uncompahgre Plateau area was undertaken in part to determine site density and distribution, and previously assigned cultural affiliation. As well, a reassessment of standardized site types was undertaken that resulted in the employment of more specific attributes to better define a site's purpose in landscape utilization. From those lines of investigation, a database of cultural resources located on the eastern portion of the Uncompahgre Plateau was created and is presently being used by federal land management agencies to better protect and preserve this National Heritage. A password is required to access this data. Contact our office for details.
Piceance Landscape Database Project
DARG initiated the Piceance Landscape Database Project in 2016 in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management to provide a regional overview of historic and prehistoric Native American land use. It is Part I of an Ethnographic Landscape Study of the Northwest Piceance Creek Basin, an area that was an essential portion of the traditional Ute homeland during the historic period. This area has importance for other tribal groups as well; however, this study’s focus is on the Utes and how they see themselves as connected to this landscape.
The project comprises over 2700 sites within the Northwest Piceance boundary. Majority of the sites have components that are prehistoric with many are historic and paleontological, or various combination of the three. A password is required to access this data. Contact our office for details.