A Summary of Results of Survey of the Northern End of Guadalupe Mountain, Rio Grande del Norte National Monument

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For many years archaeologists working in the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico and southern Colorado have encountered a very fine-grained, dark gray or black material that has been identified as dacite. Dacite has previously been recognized as occurring in the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field at San Antonio Mountain and Newman Dome, and recent survey of 720 acres of the north end of Guadalupe Mountain in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument found it naturally outcrops there as well. This paper presents the results of the survey with a discussion of settlement patterns, site formation processes, and differential uses of various lithic materials in the context of this lithic raw material source.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25391