Investigative Report of the Pithouse Excavation at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358), Located on Cibola National Forest Lands Withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base, Department of Defense, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Author(s): James D. Gallison; J. David Kilby; Roberto Herrera

Year: 2005

Summary

This report summarizes results and findings of the TRC Mariah volunteer pithouse excavations at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358) conducted in 1996. LA 53672 is an ancestral Puebloan habitation site that dates from the Late Developmental to Coalition period and is one of at least 100 prehistoric sites containing a ceramic component recorded in the valley bottoms and foothills of the Manzanita Mountains. The site is located at 1,828 m (6,000 ft) elevation within the lands withdrawn from the Cibola National Forest to Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) along an alluvial fan on the south side of Coyote Creek, a large tributary of Tijeras Arroyo. Water erosion had impacted the cultural deposits and exposed the remains of a pithouse feature in the cutbank of a tributary drainage of Arroyo del Coyote. The site was initially documented in 1985 and the masonry features at the site were tested during a geophysical study in 1996. The pithouse feature was exposed in profile along the cutbank and determined to be located in a deep depression that was also marked as a magnetic anomaly during geophysical testing. The pithouse, which was later excavated by volunteers from TRC Mariah and the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, is the focus of this report.

Cite this Record

Investigative Report of the Pithouse Excavation at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358), Located on Cibola National Forest Lands Withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base, Department of Defense, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. James D. Gallison, J. David Kilby, Roberto Herrera. 2005 ( tDAR id: 469213) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8469213

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Ceramic • Chupadero Black on White • Los Lunas Smudged • Pitoche Brown ware • Red Ware • Soccoro Black on White • Tijeras Black on Gray • White Mountain Red Ware • White on White

Site Name
AR-03-03-05-358 • LA 53672

Site Type
Pit House / Earth Lodge

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Geophysical Test

Geographic Keywords
Albuquerque, New Mexico • Arroyo del Coyote • Bernalillo (County) • Cibola National Forest • Coyote Creek • Kirtland Air Force Base • Manzanita Mountains • Tijeras Arroyo

Temporal Keywords
Coalition period • Historic • Late Developmental period • Prehistoric

Spatial Coverage

min long: -107.15; min lat: 34.211 ; max long: -105.26; max lat: 35.15 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Kirtland Air Force Base CRM Manager

Record Identifiers

New Mexico Cultural Resources Information System No.(s): 92723

e2M Cultural Resource Report No.(s): 2005-02

Contract No.(s): DACA45.02.D.0010.0001

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