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Southeastern New Mexico is renowned not only for its remarkable geology but for the long history of human occupation recorded in its vast and varied landscape – a hsitory we are still picing together. Many question are still being answered: What rocks did the ancient inhabitants of the region use to make stone tools? Where did they find these materials? What remains at these location that might help us understand the techniques they used to produce these tools?

Information about the prehistoric occupation of the Southwest Pecos Slopes physiographic region remains relatively unknown. This particular region has recenty witnessed a pronounced increase in oil-and-gas-extraction activities, nd the tract of land situated between the Black and Pecos Rivers was only just incorporated into the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement (PA) study area. In order to improve the management abilities of the U. S. Department of the Interio Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and address critical data gaps for the region, the Carlsbad Field Offic (CFO) requested a detailed study to examine general trends in human settlement and land use across the study area.

Humans have lived on the Mescalero Plain for over 10,000 years. The traditional view of past Native American societies inhabiting the plains is one of the ancient hunters and gatherers moving across the landscape according to the seasons or the more recent arrival of horse-mounted groups after Europeans introduced horses to the region in the 1600s. This publication presents a new side to the story of the Mescalero Plain. Sometime around 600 years ago, a pueblo was built on a small ridge in what is now southeastern New Mexico. The site is called The Merchant Site.

Humans have lived on the Mescalero Plain for over 10,000 years. The traditional view of past Native American societies inhabiting the plains is one of the ancient hunters and gatherers moving across the landscape according to the seasons or the more recent arrival of horse-mounted groups after Europeans introduced horses to the region in the 1600s. This publication presents a new side to the story of the Mescalero Plain. Sometime around 600 years ago, a pueblo was built on a small ridge in what is now southeastern New Mexico. The site is called The Merchant Site.

Humans have lived on the Mescalero Plain for over 10,000 years. The traditional view of past Native American societies inhabiting the plains is one of the ancient hunters and gatherers moving across the landscape according to the seasons or the more recent arrival of horse-mounted groups after Europeans introduced horses to the region in the 1600s. This publication presents a new side to the story of the Mescalero Plain. Sometime around 600 years ago, a pueblo was built on a small ridge in what is now southeastern New Mexico. The site is called The Merchant Site.

The petroleum reserves of various Permian Basin production “horizons” – or strata, or formations, or plays – are hydrocarbon liquids and gases that started life in the Devonian and Permian geological times (400 to 250 million years ago) as carbon-based life forms.

Fill that included carbon-stained sediments from a fire-cracked rock concentration at site LA 121520 in Eddy County, southern New Mexico, was submitted for phytolith and macrofloral analysis. Charcoal recovered from the macrofloral portion of the sample was submitted for AMS radiocarbon age determination. The sample is expected to date to the historic period.

This survey was an inventory of prehistoric and historic sites located in the Delaware River Valley to be used for the preparation of a National Register of Historic Places Nomination form. Information from the survey is also used for management of the Delaware River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, as defined by the BLM Carlsbad Field Office.

The BLM contracted with TRC to conduct a joint archaeological and ethnographic inventory of nine areas on BLM managed land that are of potential importance to the Mescalero Apache. Although the present-day Mescalero Apache Reservation is restricted to a small part of northern Otero County, their aboriginal territory encompassed most of southeastern New Mexico, portions of west Texas, and extended into northern Mexico.

This project involved archaeological recovery at two sites as part of a remediation effort following a produced water release from the Turner “B” South Tank Battery, which contaminated a portion of LA 171726 with chloride and (less extensively) hydrocarbons.