Table of Contents:
- The Colorado Wickiup Project: investigation of the rarest and most fragile of Native American sites
- A safer world in woods embraced: Ute origins and culture history
- Ephemeral bounty: the golden years of the protohistoric era
- Gimme shelter: aboriginal wooden features
- Field methodology for expedient wooden feature sites
- Dating aboriginal wooden features
- The Decker Big Tank Wickiup Village
- The Pisgah Wickiup Village
- The Ute Hunters' Camp
- Disappointment Draw Lodge
- Musick Lodge
- The Tea House Wickiup
- Future directions and proposed research
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. Tree-ring dating results from the Colorado Wickiup Project
- Appendix B. The aboriginal wooden feature component form: samples of blank and filled-out forms
- Appendix C. Quantifiable aspects of the Colorado Wickiup Project's wooden features
- Appendix D. Consultation with Ute tribal members at the Tea House Wickiup.
