Preliminary Draft: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 47 Archaeological Sites, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Author(s): James D. Gallison; Michael K. Church; J. David Kilby; Roberto Herrera; Nicole Ramirez

Year: 2008

Summary

In the period between October 2005 and June 2006, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 47 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Eleven of the 34 sites recommended eligible are threatened from modern disturbances (LA 69885, LA 137933, LA 137981, LA 137985, LA 137987, LA 137988, LA 137995, LA 138002, LA 138016, LA 138028 and LA 138029). Most of the disturbance is from roads or trails and one site, LA 1380209, straddles the boundary of Kirtland Air Force Base and the Cibola National Forest. The remaining 13 sites lack significant archaeological deposits and are recommended not eligible to the National Register of Historic Places. The sites consist of small assemblages that testing either failed to find evidence for buried iii artifacts or found few artifacts in deposits that are eroded or redeposited from slopewash and bioturbation. Eight of the thirteen sites are damaged from construction activities associated with roads, mechanical disturbance from land clearing, or mining activity. With the exception of collecting the artifacts exposed on the surface of theses site for future study, the sites do not require additional cultural resource management protection.

Cite this Record

Preliminary Draft: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 47 Archaeological Sites, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. James D. Gallison, Michael K. Church, J. David Kilby, Roberto Herrera, Nicole Ramirez. 2008 ( tDAR id: 469217) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8469217

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Historic • Late Archaic • Middle Archaic • RIO GRANDE

Material
Chipped Stone

Site Name
LA 107487 • LA 135420 • LA 135421 • LA 137981 • LA 137982 • LA 137983 • LA 137984 • LA 137985 • LA 137986 • LA 137987 • LA 137988 • LA 137989 • LA 137990 • LA 137991 • LA 137992 • LA 137993 • LA 137994 • LA 137995 • LA 137997 • LA 138002 • LA 138008 • LA 138014 • LA 138015 • LA 138016 • LA 138018 • LA 138019 • LA 138027 • LA 138028 • LA 138029 • LA 142063 • LA 142067 • LA 142068 • LA 142069 • LA 142070 • LA 142071 • LA 142074 • LA 142081 • LA 142084 • LA 142109 • LA 142133 • LA 142134 • LA 142135 • LA 142136 • LA 69885 • LA 77090 • LA 81737 • LA 81740 Show More

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Mine • Mine-Related Structures

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Eligibility Recommendation • Jemez • Madera • Mt Taylor • National Register of Historic Places • Rio Grande • San Pedro

Geographic Keywords
Albuquerque, New Mexico • Bernalillo (County) • Cibola National Forest • Kirtland Air Force Base

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Developmental Period • Historic • 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 Activity No.(s): 95716

Contract No.(s): W9128F-05-D-0008-0001

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