Roxborough State Park Archaeological District is located in Douglas County, Colorado. Roxborough State Park, 25 miles south of Denver, Colorado, is a Colorado State Park day park. Archaeological artif
Red rocks at Roxborough State Park
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Franktown Cave is an archeological site in the U.S. state of Colorado, located 25 miles south of Denver on the north edge of the Palmer Divide. It is the largest rock shelter documented on the Palmer
Roxborough State Park Archaeological District
…its own goods, traded and developed a complex society. Trade by the ancient culture is suggested by the presence of catlinite pipe pieces at both the Franktown Cave and Roxborough sites. Catlinite is indigenous to Minnesota. The majority of artifacts, though, were from the late Archaic and Woodland periods. While…
South Platte basin (ne) and Arkansas River basin (se). Franktown is slightly east of Castle Rock.