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

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.