Manzanita Mountains (Geographic Keyword)
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An archaeological resurvey and monitoring program was recently completed for an 0.86 acre area situated on the Robotics Test Range for Sandia National Laboratories, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The Sandia Robotics Test Range is located on the western piedmont of the Manzanita Mountains south of Albuquerque, on land that is owned by Kirtland Air Force Base. The project area was proposed for and subsequently utilized for the testing of extremely high powered jets of water and an earth excavating...
Cultural Resources Survey of 65 Acres for Use Permit No. DACA 47-4-70-141, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, for Sandia National Laboratories (1991)
An archaeological survey of approximately 65 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. The area has been extensively disturbed by use of the area over the past twenty to thirty years. In part due to this previous disturbance and the fact that much of the area is situated within the valley drainage bottom and within the floodplain, no significant cultural resource sites were located. The results of...
Draft Report: Archaeological Evaluation of an Upland Cache of Broken and Burnt Bifaces in the Manzanita Mountains, Site LA 153888, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, Bernalillo County New Mexico (2012)
This report presents the results of field investigations of site LA 153888 (AR 05-855) at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) in the Manzanita Mountains on lands withdrawn from the Cibola National Forest and managed by the Department of Defense (DoD). The site was investigated to learn the extent of the damage from the skid trails and to determine the best method for protecting the site from further erosion. Surface collection and testing yielded 255 stone artifacts that included 239 biface...
Final Draft: Archaeological Investigation and Stabilization of LA 152062 and an Archaeological Damage Assessment of LA 107494, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2011)
This report presents the results of field investigations of two archaeological sites (LA 152062 and LA 107494) located at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) along Arroyo del Coyote that have exhibited adverse impacts. Both sites are eligible to the National Register of Historic Places.
Investigative Report of the Pithouse Excavation at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358), Located on Cibola National Forest Lands Withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base, Department of Defense, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2005)
This report summarizes results and findings of the TRC Mariah volunteer pithouse excavations at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358) conducted in 1996. LA 53672 is an ancestral Puebloan habitation site that dates from the Late Developmental to Coalition period and is one of at least 100 prehistoric sites containing a ceramic component recorded in the valley bottoms and foothills of the Manzanita Mountains. The site is located at 1,828 m (6,000 ft) elevation within the lands withdrawn from the Cibola...
Kirtland Air Force Base Geoarchaeologic Landform Analysis Project (GLAP), Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2009)
Kirtland Air Force Base is the location of abundant archaeological sites found in the Manzanita Mountains and lower slopes east of the Rio Grande. The goal in this study is the development of a geoarchaeologic model identifying the depositional units of Quaternary age at Kirtland Air Force Base that may preserve buried cultural deposits. The model utilizes the geologic mapping results from previous studies and identifies additional Quaternary units in areas where this information was missing....
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Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.
National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 16 Archaeological Sites, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2007)
In the period between July 2004 and November of 2005, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 16 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The results of the testing and evaluation for 16 sites are documented in this report. Five of the sites are located on lands administered by the Department of Defense (DoD) (LA 47905, LA 108013, LA 108017, LA...
Preliminary Draft: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 17 Historic and Prehistoric Sites, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County New Mexico (2009)
In the period between May 2007 and August 2007, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 17 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Seven of the sites (n=7) are recommended eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), under Criterion (D) and one of the sites, LA 81732, is also recommended eligible under Criterion (C). The...
Summary Report on the Archaeological Investigations of a Middle to Late Archaic Prehistoric Site at Coyote Springs, LA 152062 Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County New Mexico (2009)
Report summarizing the field investigations of LA 152062 for determination of disturbance extent.
Work Plan for Conducting National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Eligibility Determination for 62 Archaeological Sites on Cibola National Forest Lands Withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (2006)
This document details plans to conduct the archaeological testing necessary to complete National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility assessments of the remaining 62 sites on US Forest Service (USFS) lands withdrawn to the Department of Defense (DoD) at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) for which eligibility has not been determined. This investigation will help to complete the inventory of cultural resources recorded at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) and will assist Kirtland Air Force...