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The La Junta district, Salt Flat Basin, the Guadalupe Mountains, and other areas of the Trans-Pecos are often accorded only passing reference, if they are mentioned at all, in culture history overviews of the Jornada Mogollon region. Likewise, the Jornada Mogollon region is often given limited attention in culture histories of the eastern Trans-Pecos. Cultural events and processes in the La Junta district and Jornada Mogollon region are distinct and rightfully should be viewed within their specific environmental, ecological, and cultural contexts. However, of equal significance is the interplay between Prehistoric and early Historic groups throughout these and more distant regions of the Southwest. Again, these issues reflect our scale of inquiry. By focusing on single regions, adaptive patterns and processes that transcend regional boundaries are often overlooked. A combined focus on the regional and the transcendent can provide a more realistic vision of prehistory, not only for the Trans-Pecos but also for the greater Southwest, north-central Mexico, the Southern Plains, and central Texas.

For the first time, all imaages on stone located with in the Abo Unit of Salinas National Monument have been recorded. This dissertation begins an initial exploration into meaningful patterns of cultural interaction between the art of Abo Pueblo and its physical landscape. Rock art, a product of human social behaviors, shapes and defines landscape space. Traces of these behaviors are analyzed with new tools available with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software.

The scholar who is studying the American Indian is frequently faced with the difficult task of dealing with a vast number of large and small aboriginal groups which disappeared prior to the time when ethnologists and linguists could record anything of their language, culture or socio-political organization. This problem is particularly acute in the area of the southwestern United States and the north of Mexico, for in this region great changes occurred prior to 1821 and many Indian groups were obliterated before the coming of observers with scientific inclinations.

Ysleta del Sur, 15 miles south of El Paso, Texas, was established in 1682 for refugee Tigua Indians who abandoned the old Isleta pueblo, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Despite loss of pueblo lands, intermarriage with non-Indians, and the acculturative influences of a dominant Mexican population, the Tigua of Ysleta del Sur have retained an Indian identity and tribal organization. Officially recognized by the federal government in the spring of 1968 as a surviving tribe of American Indians, they are presently active in reinterpreting and revitalizing their Indian heritage.

This report describes the results of the field examination of a 10 per cent stratified sample of 1,658 PA projects that were completed between May 1, 2013 and June 30, 2016.

Ruzel Ednalino, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, was one of nine student interns at the Carlsbad Field Office this past summer. He volunteered for the Archaeology Department, but he also had an opportunity to learn about the BLM careers. He has written this article describing his summer experience in the Carlsbad Field Office.

BLM archaeologists from the Carlsbad Field Office shared archaeological findings and promoted stewardship of cultural resources in the Permian Basin with local Boy Scouts, their families, representatives from Xcel Energy, and the region’s review archaeologist from the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

This report describes a survey undertaken for a multi-branch oil gathering pipeline located in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico and Culberson, Loving, and Winkler Counties in Texas. The cumulative length of the various lines total almost 467 miles. Fourty-two new sites were recorded and 55 previously recorded sites wer revisited and of these 33 were commended as eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places for their research potential.

This report analyzed 256 sites located within the PA Area in terms of the questions posed int he Southeastern New Mexico Regional Research Design and Cultural Resource Management Strategy which guides PA research. The 256 sites had been sampled by Carlsbad Field Office archaeologists to produce 533 radiocarbon dates and information about plants that had been burned as fuel, as well as limited information about plants used as food or for other purposes.

While the subject matter, recording, and evaluating prehistoric archaeological sites can be considered to be “dry,” these activities can lead to exciting new avenues of knowledge and understanding. By focusing on a small area of the ground surface the TRU survey method also brings into focus the reality that the distribution of artifacts and features across the landscape is not always neatly divided into well-defined sites.