Archaeological Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico—A Public Education Report, Technical Report 23-135, Statistical Research, Inc.

Author(s): Samuel Cason

Year: 2023

Summary

This public education is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 17 (public education report) in the Statement of Work. Other components of the larger Salado Draw investigation are published separately and consist of Task 11 (report of Salado Draw survey, testing, and project synthesis; Cason, Heilen, Leckman, et al. 2023); Task 12 (report of the study of mortar holes in Salado Draw; Cason, Heilen, and Babicz 2023); Task 13 (Salado Draw geomorphological study; Onken 2023); Task 16 (Salado Draw use-wear analyses; Branyan and Adams 2022; Cason 2022b; Harro 2022); and Task 15 (starch pilot study, Perry 2023). This report summarizes the larger study for a wider, public audience.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico—A Public Education Report, Technical Report 23-135, Statistical Research, Inc.. Samuel Cason. 2023 ( tDAR id: 490369) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8490369

Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Mogollon • PaleoIndian • Southern High Plains

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone

Site Type
Bedrock Mortar • habitation structures • thermal features

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey

General
Archaeology • Botany • geomorphology

Geographic Keywords
Jornada Mogollon • North America • Permian Basin • Southeast New Mexico • Southern High Plains

Temporal Keywords
Archaic • Formative • Historic • PaleoIndian • Post-Formative

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Archaeological Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico—A Public Education Report, Technical Report 23-135, Statistical Research, Inc.