EMAP - Unit Summaries

Site LA130191, Pague Well Village, was excavated in the summers of 2000, 2001, and 2002 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP). The goal of this project is to collect data from Mimbres Classic Period habitation rooms to illuminate the occupational and abandonment history of such sites in the Eastern Mimbres area. EMAP is under the direction of Dr. Margaret Nelson and Dr. Michelle Hegmon and in the summer of 2002 was conducted as an archaeological field school. The following...

Site LA130191 was tested excavated in the summer of 2000 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), and further excavations were conducted during the summer of 2001 by members of the ASU Field School and EMAP. The goal of this project is to collect data from Classic period (A.D. 1000- 1130) Mimbres habitation - rooms and adjacent areas to improve understanding of the occupation, abandonment and reorganization of sites in the Eastern Mimbres area. LA130191, Pague Well Village, is...

Site LA 130191 was excavated in the summer of2001 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project Field School. The goal of this project was to collect data from Mimbres Classic Period habitation rooms to illuminate the occupational an abandonment history of such sites in the Eastern Mimbres area. LA130191 is a multiple roomblock site, with at least six roomblocks. It is located on a low first terrace above the floodplain of the Seco drainage, a locally perennial stream which drains a portion...

Site LA130191, also known as Pague Well Village, was test excavated in the summer of 2001 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project. The goal of this project was to collect data from Classic period (A.D. 1000- 1130) Mimbres habitation rooms and associated cultural areas to increase understanding of the occupational and abandonment history of such sites in the Eastern Mimbres area. LA 130191 is located on a low first terrace above the floodplain on the south side of the Seco drainage, a...

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project field school fully excavated three units at Pague Well, Site LA 130191, during the summer of2001. The goal of the project is to collect data from Classic Mimbres period habitations and further improve the understanding of the occupational, abandonment, and re-organizational history of sites in Eastern Mimbres area LA 130191 is located on a low first terrace above the floodplain of the Seco drainage, a locally perennial stream that drains a portion of...

Site LA 130191, Pague Well Village, is located in the Eastern Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico. The site sits upon a low first terrace above the floodplain of the Seco drainage, which drains a portion of the Black Range into the Rio Grande. Excavations were conducted at Pague Well Village, a Classic Period (A. D. 1000-1130) Mimbres habitation site, by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project during the summer of 2002 with the goal of further understanding the occupational, abandonment, and...

The following paper summarizes the result of excavations from Unit 42 at Pague Well Village, LA130191. The site is located on a first terrace above the Seco floodplain. The Seco is one of a handful of perennial creeks that run from the Black Range into the Rio Grande. LA 130191 is located just above the Seco in an area spotted with Juniper, pines, cholla and yucca. The ecology of the area also includes fauna such as cottontail and jackrabbit, mule deer, elk and some pronghorn antelope. The site...

During the summer of2002, the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) conducted research in the Eastern Mimbres region. Part of this work involved excavation at Pague Well Village (LA130191), a Classic Mimbres site located on a first terrace above the Seco drainage. Pague Well village is a site with multiple roomblocks, one of which being roomblock D, located toward the northern part of the terrace. Unit 43 is among the rooms that form roomblock D. The purpose for its excavation is to...

Phelps - Unit Summaries The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project, co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1993, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1993 Nelson was at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995 both moved to Arizona State University, where they...

Unit 1 was chosen to excavate because it was a burned room. One of our main goals this summer was to get dates. Hopefully, the burning would allow us to get good archeomagnetic, dendro, and C14 material. This was the first room opened in LA 37691, also known as the Post Classic site. From the surface, Unit 1 appeared to be one large room measuring 5.5 m x 2.5 m and running east and west. We began excavating in the east side of the room using 5 cm levels to give good provenience control....

During the 1993 summer field season excavation was undertaken and continued in the Palomas Drainage of the foothills of the Black Range by students and staff of the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) under the auspices of Dr. Michelle Hegmon (New Mexico State University) and Dr. Margaret Nelson (University of New York at Buffalo). The sites excavated were located on the Ladder Ranch in Central/Western New Mexico. This report addresses the excavation of one room (Unit 10) at the Phelps...

LA37691 is a small roomblock located on a narrow terrace above the south fork of the Palomas Creek. The site was first excavated in 1983 by Dr. Margaret Nelson and students from the University of New Mexico. "The 1983 survey estimated the site size at 130m X l00m and identified two roomblocks (the smaller with 1-2 rooms and the larger with 4-5 rooms), two depressions, one hearth, and lithic and ceramic scatter" (Norvell 1993). During the 1993 season three rooms, designated Units 10, 11 and 12,...

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

Ronnie - Unit Summaries The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project, co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1993, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1993 Nelson was at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995 both moved to Arizona State University, where they...

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

This report documents the results of excavations within one room, designated Unit 2, of two rooms excavated at site 83NM400 in July and August of 1991. (Site 83NM400 is a Late Classic Mimbres/Tularosa (LCM/L) phase masonry roomblock(s) of at least four rooms with an extensive associated ceramic sherd and lithic scatter) . The rooms were excavated by undergraduate students enrolled in the University at Buffalo (UB) archaeological field school, and graduate students from the anthropology...

SJ Hamlet - Unit Summaries The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project, co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1993, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1993 Nelson was at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995 both moved to Arizona State University, where...

This report summarizes the results of the excavation of LA 45028, SJ Hamlet, a small, Classic Mimbres site in the Eastern Mimbres region. SJ Hamlet was one of three Classic Mimbres sites excavated by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) during the 1998 field season. This site was primarily excavated by Gregson Schachner, Melissa Baird, Margaret Hayes, Gavin McCullough, and Deborah Bradley under the direction of Doctors Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon of Arizona State University....