The Cerrito Site Monitoring Study: Adaptive Management of Recreation within a Significant Archaeological Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In an effort to better understand the impacts of opening recreational hiking trails near significant archaeological sites, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, has initiated a study to monitor visitor access to the Cerrito Site, an early historic Ancestral Puebloan site at Abiquiu Lake in northern New Mexico. The study uses trail cameras and repeated monitoring of artifact distributions across the site to determine impacts from hikers, and to provide insight into future adaptive management practices to preserve and protect this important archaeological site. The data from this project will be used to inform future management decisions related to the preservation of archaeological sites in heavily-trafficked recreation areas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23674