Lea County, NM (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John E. Beimly.

This document is a report by the Eastern New Mexico Division of Conservation Archaeology, of Portales, New Mexico, conducted in June, 1975, under th direction of Dr. Cynthia Irwin-Williams, contracted with K.B. Kennedy Engineering Co., of Roswell, New Mexico. The purpose of the survey was to thoroughly search the proposed fifty foot right-of-way and adjacent land for any prehistoric or historic sites of archaeological interest and to recommend methods to mitigate any impact construction...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J.C. Acklen. Crollett. Seymour.

The following update serves as a supplement to the comprehensive form prepared in 1973 by Don Sawyer for Burro Tanks Site. This site is one of the most important archaeological resources in southeast New Mexico. The site is one of the few Jornada Mogollon structural sites in the region, with evidence for occupations spanning all time periods from Paleoindian to protohistoric Apache. The present project was able to make several contributions to the record of Burro Tanks Site. Transect survey...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth Brown. Marie E. Brown. Benjamin G. Bury. Peter C. Condon. Richard Doucett. Jeffrey R. Ferguson. Charles D. Frederick. Michael D. Glascock. Martha Graham. Richard G. Holloway. David A. Hyndman. Melissa K. Logan. Linda Perry. J. Michael Quigg. M. Steven Schackley. Regge Wiseman. Adriana Romero. Barbara M. Winsborough.

This document, published by TRC Environmental, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico under contract with the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office, carried out the required archaeological and geomorphologic investigations at LA 5148, Lea County, New Mexico, as well as an analysis of existing artifact collections from the same site. Under the Bureau of Land Management’s Permian Basin Mitigation Program, TRC carried out Task Order 05 with the goal of providing a more comprehensive...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Site LA 175601, located along Salado Draw in Lea County, New Mexico, is a short-term plant processing site believed to have been used to procure plant resources locally. Fill from two thermal features were submitted for phytolith and macrofloral analyses to address questions of resource processing. Charcoal recovered from the macrofloral samples was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Results from the phytolith and macrofloral analyses, as well as radiocarbon dates, will be applied to the...