PBS Time Team features local ruins

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PBS Time Team features local ruins

‘The Lost Pueblo Village’ shot at Indian Camp
Grace Erny and Amanda Hernandez record measurements at the Dillard site, which is the subject of an hourlong PBS show scheduled to air Tuesday, Aug. 26.
Caitlin Sommer describes the scene at the Dillard site when the documentary crew was filming a show that will air on Tuesday, Aug. 26 on PBS.
Aryel Rigano scraps the dirt excavating at the Dillard Site.

PBS Time Team features local ruins

Grace Erny and Amanda Hernandez record measurements at the Dillard site, which is the subject of an hourlong PBS show scheduled to air Tuesday, Aug. 26.
Caitlin Sommer describes the scene at the Dillard site when the documentary crew was filming a show that will air on Tuesday, Aug. 26 on PBS.
Aryel Rigano scraps the dirt excavating at the Dillard Site.
How to watch

What: “The Lost Pueblo Village, A Time Team America Presentation”
When: The show will air nationwide on Tuesday, Aug. 26
Where: Rocky Mountain PBS at 8 p.m.
On the web: The show will be available online after it airs at pbs.org/time-team/home
If you miss it: Join Crow Canyon Archaeological Center on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 6:25 p.m. at the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, for a screening of the PBS archaeology show Time Team America.

The Basketmaker III Period

Time period: A.D. 500-750
It was a pivotal time in Pueblo history, one that saw the introduction of pottery, the bow and arrow and cultivated beans (corn and squash had already been introduced during the earlier Basketmaker II and late Archaic periods). In the Mesa Verde region, the Basketmaker III perriod was also a time of rapid population growth, which archaeologists believe was largely the result of immigration into the area. Where the immigrants came from remains the subject of much research and debate.
Source: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center