Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico
Creators: name: Onken, Jill
Publisher: name: Statistical Research, Inc.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Southern High Plains
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subject: American Southwest
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subject: North America
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subject: Southeast New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/20618/southeast-new-mexico
subject: Permian Basin
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subject: Archaic
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subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: PaleoIndian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/181/paleoindian
subject: Formative
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subject: Post-Formative
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subject: Jornada Mogollon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/2000/jornada-mogollon
subject: Mogollon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/34/mogollon
subject: PaleoIndian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/4/paleoindian
subject: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: Optically Stimulated Luminscence Dating (OSL)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/154717/optically-stimulated-luminscence-dating-osl
subject: geomorphology
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subject: Environment Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/13/environment-research
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
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subject: Systematic Survey
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description: The unusually high concentration of Paleoindian period sites in the Salado Draw area provides a unique opportunity to gain significant new knowledge about the Paleoindian period occupation of southeastern New Mexico. In addition to Paleoindian period materials—which include Clovis, Folsom, Dalton, Plainview, Midland, Angostura, Golondrina, and Wilson projectile points—the Salado Draw project area also contains site components dating to the Archaic, Formative, and historical periods. This study, requested by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management– (BLM–) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO), documents and interprets the geomorphic and soil-stratigraphic context of Salado Draw archaeological manifestations, to reconstruct the history of landscape evolution and geomorphic change in the Salado Draw area. This volume presents the context, the field and analytic methods, and the results of this geoarchaeological study in addressing the project’s goals and research questions, along with recommendations for future geomorphological studies.