Preliminary Draft: Excavation and Stabilization of LA 112472: A Pre-Classic Fieldhouse in Coyote Canyon Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico

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

Year: 2006

Summary

This report describes the results of testing, limited data recovery, and stabilization of LA 112472 (U.S. Forest Service site number AR-03-03-05-850), a small structure dating to the late Developmental to Coalition period (AD 1170-1280). The site, located on U.S. Forest Service land withdrawn to the Department of Energy and managed by the Department of Defense at Kirtland Air Force Base, was exposed in a south-facing cut bank created by the construction and maintenance of Coyote Creek Road. When the site was initially recorded, it was judged extremely disturbed and lacking intact deposits. However, a 2004 visit to the site concluded that the site potentially contained extensive subsurface deposits, including architecture and cultural deposits in a stratified context, which had been exposed by road maintenance and resulting slopewash erosion. The objective of the project presented in this report was to expose and remove the portions of the intact masonry feature in the cut bank that were threatened with destruction and to conduct limited testing of the upper slope to determine the spatial extent of the site and any features not visible from the surface. The project also involved stabilization of remaining cultural deposits. This report concludes that LA 112472 may represent a Coalition-period experiment in the seasonally occupied fieldhouses that characterize agricultural intensification for much of the northern Rio Grande during the later Classic period.

Cite this Record

Preliminary Draft: Excavation and Stabilization of LA 112472: A Pre-Classic Fieldhouse in Coyote Canyon Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Michael K. Church, James D. Gallison, J. David Kilby, Roberto Herrera. 2006 ( tDAR id: 469229) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8469229

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • RIO GRANDE

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Cibola Whiteware • Fauna • Ground Stone • Jemez Obsidian • Limestone • Madera • Pitoche • Quartzite • Rio Grande Chalcedony • Socorro Black On White • St. John's Polychrome • Tijeras • Tijeras Plain • Tijeras Smeared • Wood

Site Name
AR-03-03-05-850 • LA 112472

Site Type
Pit House / Earth Lodge • Rock Alignment • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Storage Pit

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing • Site Stabilization

Geographic Keywords
Albuquerque, New Mexico • Bernalillo (County) • Coyote Springs Road||Manzanita Mountains • Kirtland Air Force Base

Temporal Keywords
Coalition 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 No.(s): 100573

NMCRIS No.(s): 100573

Contract No.(s): DACA45-03-D-0005

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