Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Jemez Mountain range and the Pajarito Plateau are located on the southern-most portion of the Colorado Plateau in northwestern New Mexico. The landscape is both environmentally and culturally diverse. The region encompasses a 10,000-year cultural history of the peoples who have inhabited and manipulated this landscape for survival and cultural expression. A wide range of agencies help manage this landscape, including but not limited to Tribal governments, the Department of the Interior (National Park Service), the Department of Agriculture (U.S. Forest Service), and the Department of Energy (Los Alamos National Laboratory). This poster session incorporates the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of cultural resource management in the eastern Jemez Mountains and on the Pajarito Plateau. This session also explores the archaeological intricacies of managing compliance-driven research, preservation, stabilization and inventory.

Other Keywords
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Ancestral Pueblo • Cultural Resource Management • Historical Archaeology • Education/Pedagogy • Zooarchaeology • Fire • Landscape Archaeology • Historic • LiDAR

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Colorado (State / Territory)

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  • Engaging Local Pueblo Youth to Preserve Ancestral Pueblo Sites at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Vidal Gonzales. J.T. Stark.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bandelier National Monument lies on the Pajarito Plateau where the Tewa, Keres, and Zuni Puebloan ancestors chose to reside. These people modified, then utilized naturally eroded recesses in welded volcanic ash to create what archaeologists term...

  • Fire Meets the Past: Archaeological Site Thinning on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Baisden.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Southwest Jemez Mountain Landscape Restoration project located in the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico encompasses approximately 116,000 acres. To increase resilience against undesirable, large-scale fires, a...

  • Identifying Cumulative Impacts from Wildfire and Wildfire Mitigations at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Holtkamp. Karla Sartor. Maria Musgrave.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The impacts of wildfire on cultural and natural resources have been discussed and analyzed for many years. Impacts include loss of irreplaceable artifacts, features, habitats, and landscapes due to increased wildfire regimes, as well as climate...

  • Just Up the Hill and Not Down the Line: Ancestral Pueblo Obsidian Use at the Source (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Civitello. Anastasia Steffen.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rich obsidian deposits found in the Jemez Mountains were utilized by all peoples in prehistory, including the Ancestral Pueblo groups who called the mountains home. For most of the geochemically-distinct geologic deposits of obsidian originating...

  • Long-Term Changes in Human-Animal Relationships on the Pajarito Plateau (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kari Cates. Cyler Conrad.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous research from the northern American Southwest suggests that human populations gradually transitioned their animal-based diet away from artiodactyls to a focus on lagomorphs and turkeys throughout the Basketmaker to Pueblo periods. Faunal...

  • Managing Between Earth and Sky: Forested Landscape Cultural Resource Management in the Jemez Mountains (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Bremer. Anne Baldwin.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human use of the Santa Fe National Forest extends well back into the past. This use remains unbroken from the earliest occupation of the land by humans into the present. Unlike many other areas there has been no hiatus of human use. The ties of...

  • MSU-VCNP Archaeology Field Schools: Collaborative Experiments in CRM Training (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Scott Worman.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Field schools serve the vital functions of training students in research methods and introducing them to the realities of field-based investigations. Beyond that, they typically have been a venue for faculty to pursue academic research agendas. In...

  • No Photos Allowed: Photogrammetry at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Livesay.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cultural Resources program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) manages nearly 2000 archaeological and historic properties, spanning thousands of years of human history. Due to its remoteness on the Pajarito Plateau, LANL boasts exceptional...

  • Preserving Cultural Resources on the Santa Fe National Forest: a Collaboration between Federal Archaeologists and Volunteers (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jana Comstock.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santa Fe National Forest manages 1.6 million acres of public land in northern New Mexico, and a large portion of the forest encompasses the Jemez Mountains. Archaeologists have surveyed approximately 16% of the forest and documented roughly...

  • Public Perceptions: The Utility of Narrow-Scope Visitor Surveys to Improve Cultural Resource Interpretation (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot Schultz.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As budgets for resource preservation and protection are outpaced by increases in visitation, managers in many parks, monuments, and protected areas depend on public interpretation as a cost-effective strategy to safeguard sensitive cultural and...

  • Resetting the Anchor: Reconsidering a Historic Ranch in Remote Northern New Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Brunette.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster outlines a re-examination of historic Anchor Ranch on the Pajarito Plateau in north-central New Mexico. Anchor Ranch was developed as a modern, working cattle ranch on the western end of the Pajarito Plateau during the early twentieth...

  • Visualizing the Unique: Lidar and Three-Dimensional Modeling as a Preservation Tool for NHPA Compliance (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Townsend.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires federal agencies to consider the effects of actions carried out on historic properties under their jurisdiction. In the instance of an undertaking that would diminish or remove important...