Goat Spring Pueblo (LA 285)

Located at a little over 6000 feet in elevation along the eastern edge of the Bear Mountains, Goat Spring Pueblo overlooks the Plano San Lorenzo of the Rio Grande floodplain. The village is comprised of a U-shaped pueblo opened to the east (Figure 2). Three masonry roomblocks are estimated to have held 200 ground floor rooms (Marshall and Walt 1984:215), and at least five depressions have been identified over the years as possible subterranean features. While surface sherds suggest that

the village was occupied from the late 1400s to about A.D. 1680 (Marshall and Walt 1984:217; Mera 1940:7), cross-dated ceramic types from excavated trenches suggest the site may have been occupied as early as the 1300s (Davis and Winkler 1960; Giomi 2018; Eckert and Huntley n.d.).