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Approximately 346 species of vertebrates are represented in the Quaternary fossil record of New Mexico. These include 4 fishes, 1 salamander, 13 anurans, 5 turtles, 19 lizards, 23 snakes, 119 birds, and 162 mammals. Some 22 taxa are from the vicinity of the Blancan/Irvingtonian transition, 12 most likely are Irvingtonian, and 4 are possibly Illinoian in age. Although many sites are undated with precision, most remaining sites probably are Wisconsinan, with well over 300 taxa.

Technical report of prehistoric archaeological investigations in the Brantley Project locality. Prepared for the Bureau of Reclamation, Southwest Regional Office in fulfillment of contract no.3-CS-57-01690.

Examination of sites in the vicinity of Carlsbad, New Mexico, has revealed evidence of extensive usage of the area by prehistoric peoples. However none of the sites show evidence of either permanent occupation or even long-term occupation. Cultural materials recovered from these sites, including the materials in private collections, indicates marked variations reflecting the region’s use over time by a variety of peoples.

This booklet describes an experiment by the BLM in applying more-efficient, digital methods to conduct a computerized archaeological survey for ring middens using data gathered remotely through aerial reconnaisance and lidar technology.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roswell Field Office retained SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to perform intensive surface documentation of the Burro Tanks site (LA 32227) in Chaves County, New Mexico. The project area consists of a single block survey of 476 acres in southwestern Chaves County, east of Hagerman and just south of New Mexico Highway 149 (NM 149). The survey area is located on the Cedar Point U.S. Geological Survery (USGS) 7.5-minute quadrangle map.

Excavation of an inhabited cave…James Pickett had made the cave his home for the past thirty-five years in the Guadalupe Mountains, Eddy County, NM.

The Merchant site (LA 43414) is a Late Prehistoric Period pueblo settlement located in the southeastern corner of New Mexico near the boundary where the basin-and-range region merges with the southern Plains. The Merchant site is reprsentative of the Ochoa phase, a poorly understood time period of southeastern New Mexico dating from around A. D. 1300/1350 to 1450. The Ochoa phase, and the El Paso and Late Glencoe phases of the closely related Jornada Mogollon region to teh west, are contemporaneous with the Pueblo IV period of the greater Southwest, the Antelope Creek phase of the southern Plains, and the Toyah phase of Central Texas. As such Merchant and other Ochoa phase settlements were part of the widespread patterns of opulation aggregation, migrations, and diasporas, and accompanying developments in social and ritual organization that occurred throughout Southwest , northern Mexico, and southern Plains during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

This report presents the results of the documentation, limited testing at LA 5148, as well as the typological, and attribute level of analysis carried out on existing Lea County Archaeological Society (LCAS) artifact collections recovered from the site. Performed on behalf of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carlsbad Field Office, Eddy County, New Mexico, under the BLM’s Permian Basin Mitigation Program, Task Order 05 was carried out under Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) permit 45-8152-10-30 and BLM survey permit 45-2920-09-TT with the goal of providing a more comprehensive interpretative assessment of prehistoric use at LA 5148. Based on the significance of the sites reported in the vicinity, the area surrounding LA 5148 was designated a National Register Archaeological District in 1989 (NRHP #89001209)and added to the State Register in 1990 (HPD#1520). Positioned along the western margin of the Laguna Plata basin, LA 5148 is within the greater Laguna Plata Archaeological District, Lea County, New Mexico (Figure 1.1). This proposed project fulfilled the responsibilities mandated under the Task Order 4 Scope of work issued on January 26, 2010 and awarded March 3, 2010. Because of this project, cultural materials were documented and archaeological data were recovered from the site. Task Order 4 was conducted in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), 36 CFR 800, and other relevant laws (ARPA permit 45-8152-10-30), regulations, standards, and guidelines and provides a critical tool in the future management of archaeological resources contained within the site. Subsequently, this information will contribute to the BLM’s Land Study and provide a valuable tool in the future management of federally owned lands in southeastern New Mexico.

This report presents the results of the documentation of and limited testing at the Boot Hill site (LA32229) in extreme northeastern Eddy County, New Mexico conducted by TRC under Task Order 4 of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Permian Basin Mitigation Program for the Carlsbad Field Office.

Between December 2012 and January 2013, archaeologists from Statistical Research, Inc (SRI) conducted geologic and archaeological studies at 14 previously identified archaeological sites, 2 small survey parcels inspected for archaeological remains, and 3 locales visited solely for the geologic study, all located in Eddy, Lea, and Chaves Counties in southeastern New Mexico. The sites and survey areas occupy a range of geologic settings. All 19 areas were utilized prehistorically.