Managing 50,000 Acres of Private Land in Texas: Results of a recent 2,000 acre pedestrian, UAV, and vegetation survey in the Sierra Diablo Mountains.

Summary

A comprehensive landscape survey covering 2,000 acres of private property was conducted this past May in the Sierra Diablo Mountains of far west Texas. The survey targeted a previously unsurveyed portion of the mountain range and surrounding alluvial fan environments adjacent to Sierra Diablo Cave with the goal of assessing the relationship between settlement and landform. The landforms included wooded juniper pine uplands at nearly 6,000 ft AMSL to the lower foothills and basin margins at 4800 ft AMSL. The results of the study identified a number of temporally sensitive occupations assigned to specific landforms, most notably middle to late archaic settlements aligned with upland locales. The results and findings of the study are discussed in relation to the regional prehistory and to the more local Sierra Diablo Cave project.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage