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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The La Junta de los Ríos (or La Junta) region of West Texas and Northeast Chihuahua is composed of villages scattered around the confluence of the Rio Conchos and Rio Grande. Based on limited investigations, La Junta village sites (AD 1200-1684) appear to be archeologically similar to, yet distinct from, adjacent Mogollon groups. While the region has been...
Managing 50,000 Acres of Private Land in Texas: Results of a recent 2,000 acre pedestrian, UAV, and vegetation survey in the Sierra Diablo Mountains. (2015)
A comprehensive landscape survey covering 2,000 acres of private property was conducted this past May in the Sierra Diablo Mountains of far west Texas. The survey targeted a previously unsurveyed portion of the mountain range and surrounding alluvial fan environments adjacent to Sierra Diablo Cave with the goal of assessing the relationship between settlement and landform. The landforms included wooded juniper pine uplands at nearly 6,000 ft AMSL to the lower foothills and basin margins at...
Sites, Non-sites, and Landscapes: Changing Land-Use Patterns in Wild Horse Draw and Vicinity, Trans-Pecos Texas (2021)
This is an abstract from the "The Big Bend Complex: Landscapes of History" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of Texas at El Paso 2014 summer archeological field school was hosted by the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo at Chilicote Ranch near Valentine, Texas. Students conducted a pedestrian sample survey focused on the cuestas and mesas between the Sierra Vieja and Wild Horse Draw. The survey identified 95 sites and a number of non-sites;...