Did Chimney Rocks elite dine on catered meals?
Grand Junction, Colo. ยป When the elite residents of Chimney Rock craved a lunch of venison or elk, it appears they did what the privileged class of today does: They got caterers to deliver it. New research by a University of Colorado archaeological team at the Chimney Rock Archeological Area near Pagosa Springs in south-central Colorado, suggests that the rabbit and turkey-eating commoners living below the dramatic sandstone mesa brought the best provisions to those who dwelled on the top. “Obviously the term ‘cater’ is somewhat tongue-in-cheek,” said Colorado professor Steve Lekson, who directed the latest excavation. “But it [Chimney Rock] is the trophy house on the hill.” The university team spent five weeks this summer digging at the Chimney Rock Great House, which was inhabited between A.D. 1075 and 1130. The team had access to two rooms for the first research dig allowed by the U.S. Forest Service at Chimney Rock since the 1970s. It is in those rooms that they found the remnants
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