The XSX Ranch Site: Excavations of a Late Classic Mimbres to Early Post Classic Pueblo in the Upper Gila Forks, New Mexico

Summary

The XSX Ranch site (LA 50702) is a multicomponent occupation located on the East Fork of the Gila River in Grant County, New Mexico. Between 1980 and 1992, Robert E. Forrester, a chemist from Texas, excavated 10 pithouses, 32 pueblo rooms in five roomblocks, and 91 burials at the site. In his little-known excavation reports, Forrester suggested the site was a Classic Mimbres occupation reoccupied by a Reserve/Tularosa population; however, in a review of his data, the site may best be interpreted as a medium-sized transitional late Classic Mimbres to Early Post Classic pueblo. This poster examines the site’s architectural remains, mortuary patterns, and related funerary ceramics in comparison to other excavated Classic Mimbres occupations in the Forks region and using those data, suggests other sites that may have been occupied in the Gila Forks between circa AD 1130 and 1200.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 22171