Preliminary Draft: Excavation and Stabilization of LA 112472: A Pre-Classic Fieldhouse in Coyote Canyon Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Creators: name: Church, Michael K.
name: Gallison, James D.
name: J. David Kilby
name: Herrera, Roberto
Publisher: name: Engineering-Environmental Management (e2M), Inc.
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Bernalillo (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3646/bernalillo-county
subject: Albuquerque, New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84765/albuquerque-new-mexico
subject: Kirtland Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/17943/kirtland-air-force-base
subject: Coyote Springs Road||Manzanita Mountains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/86332/coyote-springs-roadmanzanita-mountains
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: Developmental Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/8329/developmental-period
subject: Coalition period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/188/coalition-period
subject: Ancestral Puebloan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/19/ancestral-puebloan
subject: RIO GRANDE
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/6680/rio-grande
subject: AR-03-03-05-850
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/130383/ar-03-03-05-850
subject: LA 112472
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/130286/la-112472
subject: Storage Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/358/storage-pit
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/264/room-block-compound-pueblo
subject: Rock Alignment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/360/rock-alignment
subject: Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/15/wood
subject: Madera
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3568/madera
subject: Cibola Whiteware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/562/cibola-whiteware
subject: Tijeras Smeared
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3572/tijeras-smeared
subject: St. John's Polychrome
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3573/st-johns-polychrome
subject: Tijeras
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3574/tijeras
subject: Pitoche
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3575/pitoche
subject: Tijeras Plain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3576/tijeras-plain
subject: Quartzite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/217/quartzite
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Limestone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/324/limestone
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Rio Grande Chalcedony
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3496/rio-grande-chalcedony
subject: Jemez Obsidian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3497/jemez-obsidian
subject: Socorro Black On White
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3564/socorro-black-on-white
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing
subject: Site Stabilization
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/11/site-stabilization

description: This report describes the results of testing, limited data recovery, and stabilization of LA 112472 (U.S. Forest Service site number AR-03-03-05-850), a small structure dating to the late Developmental to Coalition period (AD 1170-1280). The site, located on U.S. Forest Service land withdrawn to the Department of Energy and managed by the Department of Defense at Kirtland Air Force Base, was exposed in a south-facing cut bank created by the construction and maintenance of Coyote Creek Road. When the site was initially recorded, it was judged extremely disturbed and lacking intact deposits. However, a 2004 visit to the site concluded that the site potentially contained extensive subsurface deposits, including architecture and cultural deposits in a stratified context, which had been exposed by road maintenance and resulting slopewash erosion. The objective of the project presented in this report was to expose and remove the portions of the intact masonry feature in the cut bank that were threatened with destruction and to conduct limited testing of the upper slope to determine the spatial extent of the site and any features not visible from the surface. The project also involved stabilization of remaining cultural deposits. This report concludes that LA 112472 may represent a Coalition-period experiment in the seasonally occupied fieldhouses that characterize agricultural intensification for much of the northern Rio Grande during the later Classic period.