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The El Malpais National Monument located roughly 100 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, borders the southern part of the San Juan Basin and the southeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau. The extensive geologic history of volcanic activity has created a seemingly hellish volcanic field rightfully named "the badlands" by Spanish explorers. However, the region is in fact home to a rich cultural history that heavily utilizes the natural environment, including its many cave systems. The...
The Faunal Assemblage from the Cañada Alamosa, New Mexico (2015)
The Canada Alamosa Project in southwestern New Mexico has generated a faunal assemblage of over 24,000 elements that span 4000 years. The assemblage is the result of 13 years of excavations by Human Systems Research at four archaeological sites located on the privately owned Monticello Box Ranch. The bulk of the material was derived from pithouse and pueblo components at the Montoya Site (LA88891), the Kelly Canyon Site (LA1125), the 450 room Victorio Site (LA88889), and the Pinnacle Ruin...
When in the World? A Comparative Debitage Analysis of Single-component Sites through Time at Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
Both Paleoindian and Archaic sites hold valuable information concerning some of the first people in North America, yet these sites remain to be some of the most difficult to identify. Without diagnostics like architecture and ceramics to turn to, projectile points are what are most commonly depended on when trying to date these locales. However, debitage makes up the bulk of the artifacts found on these sites and sites of later dates, and it is highly plausible that debitage characteristics will...