Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico

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 "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The mountainous region of northern New Mexico around Taos has a long history of occupation and use by several cultural groups extending from the Paleoindian period through recent historical communities. Previously documented sites demonstrate that the landscape has been used by Archaic, Rio Grande Pueblo, Athabaskan, and Hispanic and Anglo-American groups. This session discusses and analyzes the results of recent archaeological research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and surrounding areas. Research conducted includes primarily large-scale compliance driven survey projects within the National Monument and on the surrounding landscape. Topics explored include land use practices, lithic material procurement and tool production, and settlement patterns of the area including during the Archaic, Pueblo, and Historical periods. The objective of this session is to contextualize contemporary research in the National Monument within the broader cultural history of the Northern Rio Grande.

Other Keywords
Survey • Archaic • Settlement patterns • Mobility • Trade and exchange • Ancestral Pueblo • Quantitative and Spatial Analysis • Material Culture and Technology • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Lithic Analysis: Obsidian

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • Idaho (State / Territory) • Oregon (State / Territory) • Wyoming (State / Territory) • North America: Northern Southwest U.S. • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory)

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  • An Analysis of No Agua Obsidian (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Lacy.

    This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The No Agua Peaks are a relative understudied obsidian source. An easily accessed and relatively large deposit area, one would expect No Agua obsidian to be frequently used and widely distributed. However, because of the source’s high silica content, desirability for and practicality of use of this...

  • A GIS Predictive Model of Early Archaic Site Locations on the Taos Plateau (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra Keyes.

    This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record within the recently designated Rio del Norte National Monument is the subject of on-going investigations. This presentation will discuss the use of Geographic information Systems (GIS) in predicting the locations of Early Archaic sites within the monument, which straddles the Rio...

  • Indicators of Athabaskan Presence in Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Curry.

    This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological survey conducted within Rio Grande del Norte National Monument indicates the use of the area by Paleoindian, Archaic, and Pueblo groups. However, evidence has been found which may also indicate an Athabaskan presence at Cerro del Aire and Guadalupe Mountain. Though Athabaskan groups...

  • Prehispanic Pueblo Use in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer.

    This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior research in and around the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument has predominately focused on the Archaic use of the area. Minimal focus has been emphasized to explore the use by Pueblo groups. This paper examines use of the landscape from the Developmental Period (900-1200 A.D.) through the...

  • A Summary of Results of Survey of the Northern End of Guadalupe Mountain, Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Brown.

    This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many years archaeologists working in the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico and southern Colorado have encountered a very fine-grained, dark gray or black material that has been identified as dacite. Dacite has previously been recognized as occurring in the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field at San Antonio...