Velarde Community Ditch Project - New Mexico Phase III (Ditch Rehabilitation): Cultural Resources Investigations
Creators: name: Harmon, Alaina
Publisher: name: (:unav)
Year: 1988
Subjects: La Villita, NM
Arroyo del Pueblo
Alcalde, NM
San Juan Pueblo Grant
Lyden Bridge
Arroyo de los Chavez
Estaca, NM
Canada de las Entranas
Pueblito, NM
Guique, NM
La Hoya, NM
Lyden, NM
Canoa, NM
La Joya, NM
Rio Grande
Black Mesa
Rio Arriba
New Mexico (State / Territory)
Chama River
San Juan Valley
18th Century
19th Century
Historic
20th Century
Prehistoric
Spanish
LA547
LA32386
La Canova
LA46579
Capilla de San Rafael
Sajiu
9:43
Pioge
LA144
9:27
10:26
LA3942
LA46580
Capilla de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
Los Luceros Hacienda
LA37549
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Adobe Structure
Non-Domestic Structures
Church / Religious Structure
Flume
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Domestic Structures
Brick Circle
Concrete Gate
Wooden Gate
House
Bridge Abutment
Basalt Bridge Abutment
Gate
Boulder Alignment
Basalt Boulder Alignment
Burial
Wooden Flume
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Adobe Cistern
Retaining Wall
Structure
Well
Ceramic Scatter
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Cistern
Agricultural or Herding
Wall
Sherd Scatter
Basalt Wall
Archaeological Feature
Artifact Scatter
Fence
Water Control Feature
Pueblo
Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features
Bridge
Rock Art
Railroad
Cobble Retaining Wall
Petroglyph
San Juan Ware
Brick
Chalcedony
Concrete
Redware
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Glass
Ground Stone
Building Materials
Brownware
Black-on-Whiteware
Mineral
Andesite
Cobble
Wood
Buffware
Grayware
Whiteware
Adobe
Basalt
Sandstone
Obsidian
Quartzite
Blackware
River Cobble
Micaceous Ware
Metamorphosed Sandstone
Black-on-Buffware
Kaepo Blackware
Powhoge Polychrome Ware
Ploychrome Ware
Mottled Obsidian
Rock Quartz
Gaudy Dutch Ware
San Juan Redware
Redware Storage Vessel
Utility Ware
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
D&amp;RGRR
Lt. John Bourke
Obsidian Projectile Point
Forest Crossen
Dough Bowl
Basalt Cobble
El Guique Ditch
Projectile Point
Lyden-Medio Ditch
Chalcedony Flake
Bowl
Obsidian Flake
Flake
Basalt Flake
Metate
Andesite Flake
Mano
Velarde Community Ditch Project
Riconada Ditch
Quartz Flake
Sandstone Flake
Cultivator
Horse-Drawn Cultivator
Alcalde Ditch
USDA Velarde Agriculture Station
Los Chicos Ditch
Ancones Ditch
Metamorphosed Sandstone Flake
Storage Vessel
El Medio Ditch
La Canova Ditch
Core
Chili Line
Garcia Ditch
Slipware
Velarde Community Ditch
Reconnaissance / Survey

description: The on-the-ground survey of the ditches was designed to locate any remnants of prehistoric activities and to note the historic and historic/modern structures and use areas which reflect the past and intertwine with the ditches and fields to create the ambient that is the San Juan Valley. The notations and locations have been used to ensure that carrying out Stage III of the project would disturb or destroy as few resources as possible and to contribute to the general knowledge of the history of the area. The scope and nature of the proposed construction activity, previous investigations (which began in 1983), and the general culture history of the project area dictated the approach used in conducting cultural resources (CR) investigations for Stage III of the project. Primary disturbance or destruction was along and to the acequias. Staging areas and access routes to all project features were affected to a lesser degree. In the cultural resources appendix to the Environmental Assessment for Stage I activities for the Velarde Community Ditch Project, an approach to survey of borrow sources, which were to be identified by the contractor shortly after award of contract, was defined. The approach, which was rigorously followed during the construction and periodic repair of the now completed structures, has proven to be expedient and has protected the resources. The same approach was followed during modification of the ditches. Background research for the 1983 assessment included a check of Museum of New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology (LA) site files for recorded prehistoric and historic sites, of which there were only six, and the determination that none of these would be affected by the Stage I work. These sites, and the two recorded during CR survey of the diversion structure sites, are discussed in relation to the Stage III construction along with the results of the intensive survey of the acequias and documentary research of the history of the area.