Dig Into the Collection of Site Records
The handful of sites discussed on the Notable Sites page exemplify the many different people, behaviors, cultures and time-periods represented in southeast New Mexico. However, there are thousands of other archaeological sites on the landscape that also represent past people and their behavior in southeast New Mexico.
Use this page to learn about some of these lesser known sites and what they can tell us about life in the past.
Burnet Cave
Roughly 13,000-12,000 years ago peoples inhabited Burnet Cave during hunting trips. They hunted now extinct Pleistocene animals, like musk ox and caribou, high up in the Guadalupe Mountains and carried…
Boot Hill
The Boot Hill site was a hunting camp where generations of ancestors lived periodically for about 1,000 years. The camp is nestled among several water sources, creating an ideal location…