Laguna Plata Basin (Geographic Keyword)

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 Melissa K. Logan.

Site LA 5148, located in the Laguna Plata Archaeological District of Lea County, New Mexico, was examined. The site was situated next to a playa. Groundstone, lithic tools, and ceramics recovered either in subsurface or from the modern surface were submitted for organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Analysis of organic residues will be used to gain information on paleodiet, specifically foods cooked in ceramic vessels, and materials ground and processed...