Permian Basin BPA 10 Merchant Site and Ochoa Phase
Part of: Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement
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Site Name Keywords
Merchant Site •
LA 43414
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Settlements •
Hamlet / Village •
Domestic Structures •
House •
Pit House / Earth Lodge •
Civic-Ceremonial
Culture Keywords
Plains Village •
Mogollon •
Plains-Southwest
Investigation Types
Collections Research •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Site Stabilization •
Remote Sensing •
Geophysical Survey
Material Types
Ceramic •
Chipped Stone •
Dating Sample •
Fauna •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Ground Stone •
Building Materials •
Macrobotanical •
Mineral •
Pollen
Temporal Keywords
Late Prehistoric
Geographic Keywords
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
US Southwest, Permian Basin, New Mexico
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Merchant Site Southeast New Mexico
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The Carlsbad Field Office contracted Versar, Inc. to conduct remedial archaeological data recovery excavations at the Merchant site (LA 43414), a complex village settlement in southeastern New Mexico. The Merchant site was excavated by the Lea County Archaeological Society (LCAS) from 1959 to 1965, but the results of the excavations were never fully reported. The site was fundamental to the definition of the Ochoa phase, but the nature of the phase had remained poorly known since the excavations...