OCHOA PHASE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MESCALERO PLAIN

Author(s): Myles Miller; Timothy B. Graves; Charles Frederick; Mark Willis; John D Speth; J. Phillip Dering; Susan J. Smith; Crystal Dozier; John G. Jones; Jeremy Loven; Genevieve Woodhead; Jeffery Ferguson; Mary Ownby; Amanda Castañeda

Year: 2021

Summary

This report presents a summary of the results of the Blanket Purchase Authority (BPA) 10 project sponsored by the Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) of the Bureau of Land Management and funded under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement. The BPA 10 project included six cultural resource projects, including survey inventories, site evaluations, and excavations.

Cite this Record

OCHOA PHASE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MESCALERO PLAIN. Myles Miller, Timothy B. Graves, Charles Frederick, Mark Willis, John D Speth, J. Phillip Dering, Susan J. Smith, Crystal Dozier, John G. Jones, Jeremy Loven, Genevieve Woodhead, Jeffery Ferguson, Mary Ownby, Amanda Castañeda. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466186) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8466186

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Historic • Historic Native American • Mogollon • Plains-Southwest • Plains Village

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Metal • Mineral • Pollen • Shell • Wood

Site Name
LA 43414 • Merchant Site

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Ancient Communal / Public Structure • Artifact Scatter • Bedrock Grinding Feature • Burned Rock Midden • Cairn • Civic-Ceremonial • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Feature • Kiva / Great Kiva • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Refuse Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Shelter • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Sheet Midden • Storage Pit • Tent Ring / Tipi Ring • Trash Midden • Water Control Feature • Wattle & Daub (Jacal) Structure

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Environment Research • Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Remote Sensing • Site Evaluation / Testing • Site Stabilization • Systematic Survey

General
Plains-Pueblo Interaction

Geographic Keywords
US Southwest, Permian Basin, New Mexico

Temporal Keywords
Archaic Period • Late Prehistoric • Protohistoric / Contact Period

Temporal Coverage

Radiocarbon Date: 5000 to 50

Spatial Coverage

min long: -104.37; min lat: 31.461 ; max long: -102.612; max lat: 33.573 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Principal Investigator(s): Myles Miller

File Information

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