An Examination of Hunter-Gatherer Land Use across the Southwestern Pecos Slopes
Part of the Permian Basin Mitigation Program, Transect Recording Unit Survey and Small-Scale Excavations at 42 Sites Along the Southwest Pecos Slopes, Eddy County, New Mexico project
Author(s): Monica Murrell
Year: 2018
Summary
This project entailed thematic reconnaissance survey and small-scale excavations of a total of 42 previously recorded archaeological sites. Survey was conducted using the Transect Recording Unit (TRU) method, with 10-by-10-m TRUs. Excavations consisted of bisections of features that exhibited carbonized remains sufficient for macrobotanical identification and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating, in addition to phytolith and starch analyses. The project resulted in examination of TRU evaluation of site boundaries and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility; creation of a chronological framework based on radiocarbon dates for the study area; definition of a site typology; elucidation of settlement patterns; determining the function and chronological placement of small sites containing five or fewer artifacts and three or fewer fire-cracked-rock features; creation of criteria for feature definitions; examination of patterns of lithic procurement, reduction, transport, use, and discard; identification of rock formations within or adjacent to the study area that potentially could have provided sandstone, limestone, or dolomite for ground stone tools; initiation of a ground-stone-tool typology for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office (BLM-CFO); and evaluation of the importance of integrity in the application of Criterion d.
Cite this Record
An Examination of Hunter-Gatherer Land Use across the Southwestern Pecos Slopes. Monica Murrell. 2018 ( tDAR id: 448053) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8448053
Keywords
Material
Ceramic
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Dating Sample
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Fire Cracked Rock
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Ground Stone
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Macrobotanical
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Data Recovery / Excavation
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Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
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Reconnaissance / Survey
Geographic Keywords
Carlsbad, New Mexico
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Southwest Pecos Slopes
Temporal Keywords
Late Archaic, Early Formative, Late Formative, Protohistoric
Individual & Institutional Roles
Principal Investigator(s): Monica Murrell
Record Identifiers
Bureau of Land Management(s): Carlsbad Field Office
File Information
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