The White Lakes Drop Zone Survey: A Cultural Resource Survey for an Aerial Drop Zone for Kirtland Air Force Base along US 285 near White Lakes, New Mexico
Creators: name: Kellett, Lucas C.
name: Renner, Valerie
Publisher: name: (:unav)
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Albuquerque, New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84765/albuquerque-new-mexico
subject: Santa Fe (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3025/santa-fe-county
subject: Kirtland Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/17943/kirtland-air-force-base
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: Ancestral Puebloan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/19/ancestral-puebloan
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: Early Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9/early-archaic
subject: Middle Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/10/middle-archaic
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/11/late-archaic
subject: LA 147817
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132879/la-147817
subject: LA 147818
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132880/la-147818
subject: LA 147823
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132877/la-147823
subject: LA 147816
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132878/la-147816
subject: LA 147819
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132881/la-147819
subject: LA 147821
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132875/la-147821
subject: LA 147822
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132876/la-147822
subject: LA 147820
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132874/la-147820
subject: Trash Midden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/351/trash-midden
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Isolated Artifact
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/344/isolated-artifact
subject: Midden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/347/midden
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Projectile Point
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/71/projectile-point
subject: Jemez Obsidian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3497/jemez-obsidian
subject: Chalcedony
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/250/chalcedony
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Airdrops
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170141/airdrops
subject: National Register of Historic Places
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1572/national-register-of-historic-places
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: Between January and March 2005, a cultural resource survey was conducted on state owned land along US 285 in south Santa Fe County near White Lakes, New Mexico. The survey was completed under the request of Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Valerie Renner, Cultural Resource Manager at Kirtland Air Force Base, organized the survey of approximately 1000 acres on state land, with the aid of an archaeologist, Lucas C. Kellett, who is permitted to do archaeological survey work on state land. In total, 960 acres of contiguous land were surveyed in Sections 25, 26, 35 and 36 in southeastern Santa Fe County to evaluate archaeological resources in the survey area. No previous survey had been undertaken on the land and as such the archaeological survey provided a first assessment of such resources. In total 28 isolated occurrences were identified in the course of the survey. In addition 8 archaeological sites were recorded, of which four were recommended eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), one was recommended not eligible, and the remaining three sites require further investigation in order to recommend eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places.