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.
Robina Draw
Many caves and rock shelters of the Guadalupe Mountains hold the embodied stories of ancestors who inhabited the region generations ago. LA 186373 is similar to other rock art sites,…
LA 183664
Residential camp sites hosted various day-to-day activities. People lived at these camps the same way that we live today, doing chores, preparing foods, playing games. At site LA 183664, there…
LA 159158
As ancestral peoples traveled across the Loco Hills region throughout the Formative Period, they often stopped here to establish a hunting camp. For shorter periods of time they would settle…
Roney’s Shelter
Pictographs depicting abstract and animal forms decorate rock shelters in the Guadalupe mountains. Ancestors who moved through the mountain range used these rocky overhangs, protected from the elements, to record…