Preliminary Draft: Testing and Evaluation of LA 38136: Changing Adaptations on the Tijeras Arroyo Terrace
Creators: name: Church, Michael K.
name: Gallison, James D.
name: J. David Kilby
Publisher: name: Engineering-Environmental Management (e2M), Inc.
Year: 2007
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: Tijeras Arroyo
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82692/tijeras-arroyo
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: Late Developmental/Coalition Transition
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/187/late-developmentalcoalition-transition
subject: Basketmaker III
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/190/basketmaker-iii
subject: Basketmaker II
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/209/basketmaker-ii
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: Folsom
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/6/folsom
subject: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: LA 38136
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126600/la-38136
subject: Military Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/322/military-structure
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Cairn
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/341/cairn
subject: Hearth
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/343/hearth
subject: Rock Alignment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/360/rock-alignment
subject: Cibola
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3565/cibola
subject: Smeared Corrugated
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3566/smeared-corrugated
subject: Mount Taylor Obsidian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3567/mount-taylor-obsidian
subject: Madera
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3568/madera
subject: Pedernal Chert
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3569/pedernal-chert
subject: Tijkeras Utility
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3570/tijkeras-utility
subject: Whiteware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/467/whiteware
subject: Basalt
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/214/basalt
subject: Silicified Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/920/silicified-wood
subject: Smeared Indented
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3512/smeared-indented
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: Limestone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/324/limestone
subject: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
subject: Rio Grande Chalcedony
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3496/rio-grande-chalcedony
subject: Brownware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/457/brownware
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

description: This report describes the results of testing at LA 38136, a multi-component site that includes a Folsom artifact scatter, a Late Developmental-Coalition Period artifact scatter, and a series of small stone structures that date to the early historic Period. To determine whether the site warranted protection and potentially stabilization, we placed seven 1 x 1 m excavation units at the site’s three loci. Testing of the site led to three primary discoveries. First, the Folsom component is only shallowly buried. However, that component has definite Folsom diagnostic artifacts and undoubtedly preserves some spatial integrity. Given the rarity of Paleoindian sites in general and at Kirtland Air Force Base in particular, this component merits protection from vehicle traffic. The second discovery is that the Late Developmental to Coalition component appears to be more ephemeral than at nearby sites (for example, LA 100149 and LA 110420 (Hill and Larson 1995). This component is an important data point in understanding the dense Late Developmental-Coalition occupation of Coyote Canyon to the east, but it appears to represent very ephemeral use of the landscape and not seasonal occupation. Third, the site preserves a historic component that dates to the 1700s and therefore represents a poorly understood period in the area’s occupation. This component, which includes multiple structures, including at least one with stratified subsurface cultural deposits, warrants protection from off-road vehicle use.