Preliminary Draft: Testing and Evaluation of LA 38136: Changing Adaptations on the Tijeras Arroyo Terrace

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

Year: 2007

Summary

This report describes the results of testing at LA 38136, a multi-component site that includes a Folsom artifact scatter, a Late Developmental-Coalition Period artifact scatter, and a series of small stone structures that date to the early historic Period. To determine whether the site warranted protection and potentially stabilization, we placed seven 1 x 1 m excavation units at the site’s three loci. Testing of the site led to three primary discoveries.

First, the Folsom component is only shallowly buried. However, that component has definite Folsom diagnostic artifacts and undoubtedly preserves some spatial integrity. Given the rarity of Paleoindian sites in general and at Kirtland Air Force Base in particular, this component merits protection from vehicle traffic.

The second discovery is that the Late Developmental to Coalition component appears to be more ephemeral than at nearby sites (for example, LA 100149 and LA 110420 (Hill and Larson 1995). This component is an important data point in understanding the dense Late Developmental-Coalition occupation of Coyote Canyon to the east, but it appears to represent very ephemeral use of the landscape and not seasonal occupation.

Third, the site preserves a historic component that dates to the 1700s and therefore represents a poorly understood period in the area’s occupation. This component, which includes multiple structures, including at least one with stratified subsurface cultural deposits, warrants protection from off-road vehicle use.

Cite this Record

Preliminary Draft: Testing and Evaluation of LA 38136: Changing Adaptations on the Tijeras Arroyo Terrace. Michael K. Church, James D. Gallison, J. David Kilby. 2007 ( tDAR id: 469226) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8469226

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Basketmaker II • Basketmaker III • Folsom • Historic • PaleoIndian

Material
Basalt • Brownware • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Cibola • Fire Cracked Rock • Jemez Obsidian • Limestone • Madera • Mount Taylor Obsidian • Pedernal Chert • Quartzite • Rio Grande Chalcedony • Silicified Wood • Smeared Corrugated • Smeared Indented • Socorro Black On White • Tijkeras Utility • Whiteware

Site Name
LA 38136

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Cairn • Hearth • Military Structure • Rock Alignment

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

Geographic Keywords
Albuquerque, New Mexico • Bernalillo (County) • Kirtland Air Force Base • Tijeras Arroyo

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Late Developmental/Coalition Transition • 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): 105095

NMCRIS No.(s): 105095

Contract No.(s): DACA45-03-D-0005.0006

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