![]() ![]() ![]() The Irwins excavated the Magic Mountain site in 1959–60. MAGIC MOUNTAIN FULLDespite decades of looting and amateur digging, they found enough cultural material to make them think a full excavation would help answer some of the questions about the foothills that had been raised by their work at LoDaisKa. The next year Putnam and Ackerley told the Irwins about the Magic Mountain site, which they soon visited. MAGIC MOUNTAIN PROFESSIONALThe Irwins’ work at LoDaisKa opened up new questions about the cultural history of the Front Range foothills, which had seen little previous professional archaeological research. In 1957 Cynthia Irwin (later Irwin-Williams) and her brother, Henry, both then studying at Harvard University, started excavations at the LoDaisKa site south of Morrison. In the early 1940s amateur archaeologists Jack Putnam and Robert Akerley alerted the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) to the potential significance of the site, and in 1941 two museum archaeologists, Elizabeth and Harold Huscher, performed test excavations and recovered a burial. By the 1940s the top layer of soil had been looted so extensively that it reportedly looked like a cratered minefield. Extensive looting of surface deposits at the site started in the 1920s and increased as it became more widely known. There has probably been digging and collecting at the Magic Mountain site since the mid-1800s, when the mining town of Apex was established where the Heritage Square parking lot is today. In the 1990s new excavations discovered thousands of artifacts and bone fragments as well as several architectural features, which have helped provide more precise dates and cultural affiliations for the site. Because it was one of the first foothills sites to be professionally excavated, the Irwins’ report on Magic Mountain has provided the foundation for all later archaeological research in the region. WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics.Named for a nearby amusement park now known as Heritage Square, the Magic Mountain Archaeological Site south of Golden was excavated in 1959–60 by Cynthia and Henry Irwin. SUPERMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics. SUPERGIRL and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics. SCOOBY-DOO and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera. LOONEY TUNES and all related characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. JUSTICE LEAGUE and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics. ![]() (s22)īATMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics. © ICEE is a federally registered trademark.ĪQUAMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics. The Welch’s name and banner are registered trademarks of Welch Foods Inc., A cooperative. © 2022 The Promotion In Motion Companies, Inc. M&M’S, the SNICKERS logo and the parallelogram design, 3 MUSKETEERS, DOVE, MILKY WAY and TWIX are trademarks of Mars or Affiliates. “Coca-Cola”, “Coca-Cola Freestyle”, the Red Disk Icon and the Contour Bottle design are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. SIX FLAGS® and all related indicia are trademarks of Six Flags Theme parks, Inc.TM © 2022.įright Fest ® and Holiday in the Park ® are registered trademarks of Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. ![]()
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