POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT NMAS 5476: A LIMITED ACTIVITY SITE IN EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO

Summary

A prehistoric Jornada Mogollon site east of Artesia, New Mexico was the

subject of salvage mitigation. The site is postulated as a campsite used

for food processing and lithic reduction. To augment the interpretation of

the site, pollen and macrofloral analyses were undertaken on material from

Feature 2, a firepit. The site is located on a rolling plain southeast of

Red Lake and immediately east of Bear Grass Draw. The area contains

medium-sized hummocks interspersed with denuded areas and is broken by

shallow arroyos. The vegetation consists of mesquite (Prosopsis juliflora),

which grows thickly on the hummocks; four-wing saltbush (Atriplex

canescens); yucca (Yucca glauca); croton (Croton); snakeweed (Gutierrezia

sarothrae); and a grass (Tridens pulchellus) (Hunt n.d.; Self and Hunt

1983).

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