Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico

Author(s): Jill Onken

Year: 2023

Summary

The unusually high concentration of Paleoindian period sites in the Salado Draw area provides a unique opportunity to gain significant new knowledge about the Paleoindian period occupation of southeastern New Mexico. In addition to Paleoindian period materials—which include Clovis, Folsom, Dalton, Plainview, Midland, Angostura, Golondrina, and Wilson projectile points—the Salado Draw project area also contains site components dating to the Archaic, Formative, and historical periods. This study, requested by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management– (BLM–) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO), documents and interprets the geomorphic and soil-stratigraphic context of Salado Draw archaeological manifestations, to reconstruct the history of landscape evolution and geomorphic change in the Salado Draw area. This volume presents the context, the field and analytic methods, and the results of this geoarchaeological study in addressing the project’s goals and research questions, along with recommendations for future geomorphological studies.

Cite this Record

Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico. Jill Onken. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Statistical Research, Inc. 2023 ( tDAR id: 490377) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8490377

Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Jornada Mogollon • Mogollon • PaleoIndian

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Environment Research • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

General
geomorphology • Optically Stimulated Luminscence Dating (OSL)

Geographic Keywords
American Southwest • North America • Permian Basin • Southeast New Mexico • Southern High Plains

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

Notes

General Note: Redacted for Public

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Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico