Contextualizing Campsites: Survey Results and Comparisons from Two Parajes along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As part of ongoing projects relating to El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, NMSU students surveyed the North Fork Paraje, a campsite near a section of the Camino Real in southern New Mexico. These ephemeral sites are generally difficult to locate, with many sites attested to in archival documents still undiscovered, resulting in a general lack of scholarship relating to them. The recent survey supports a conclusion by an earlier study that placed the heaviest period of use for the paraje in the 18th century. Furthermore, during the colonial period, the paraje appears to have been used primarily by travelers moving north from Mexico. Artifact and spatial analyses reveal differences between the North Fork site and the nearby Paraje San Diego, demonstrating the non-uniformity of this site type. These differences reflect the various ways the trail was used and experienced over time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24507