{"id":97983,"date":"2018-09-10T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chaco-excavation-reveals-evidence-of-ceramics\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:03:45","slug":"chaco-excavation-reveals-evidence-of-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chaco-excavation-reveals-evidence-of-ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaco excavation reveals evidence of ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Basketmaker III habitation site, which was partially excavated during the construction of a lift station at Chaco Canyon, unearthed habitations, storage pits and thermal features that provided evidence for the manufacture of ceramics, Nathan Hatfield of Aztec Ruins said in a press release. More than 100 unfired ceramic sherds were found as well as tools with adhering clay, lumps of mixed clay, minerals and a probable firing area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe materials discovered suggest plain jars were being made to replace those worn out along with one type of relatively rare ceramic,\u201d Hatfield said.<\/p>\n<p>The ceramics point to southern origins or interaction and reflect the early formation of Chaco, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is at the Aztec Ruins Visitor Center on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 505-334-6174 or visit http:\/\/bit.ly\/Chaco0914 or facebook.com\/AztecRuinsNM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketmaker III habitation site, which was partially excavated during the construction of a lift station at Chaco Canyon, unearthed habitations, storage pits and thermal features that provided evidence for the manufacture of ceramics, Nathan Hatfield of Aztec Ruins said in a press release. More than 100 unfired ceramic sherds were found as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97983"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}