Investigative Report of the Pithouse Excavation at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358), Located on Cibola National Forest Lands Withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base, Department of Defense, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Creators: name: Gallison, James D.
name: J. David Kilby
name: Herrera, Roberto
Publisher: name: Engineering-Environmental Management (e2M), Inc.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Manzanita Mountains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85950/manzanita-mountains
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: Arroyo del Coyote
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85727/arroyo-del-coyote
subject: Cibola National Forest
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/17697/cibola-national-forest
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: Coyote Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/22552/coyote-creek
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 period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/186/late-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: AR-03-03-05-358
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/130127/ar-03-03-05-358
subject: LA 53672
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126764/la-53672
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Los Lunas Smudged
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3534/los-lunas-smudged
subject: Pitoche Brown ware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3536/pitoche-brown-ware
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Tijeras Black on Gray
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3556/tijeras-black-on-gray
subject: White Mountain Red Ware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3557/white-mountain-red-ware
subject: Chupadero Black on White
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3558/chupadero-black-on-white
subject: White on White
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3559/white-on-white
subject: Red Ware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3560/red-ware
subject: Soccoro Black on White
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3561/soccoro-black-on-white
subject: Geophysical Test
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170242/geophysical-test
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This report summarizes results and findings of the TRC Mariah volunteer pithouse excavations at LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358) conducted in 1996. LA 53672 is an ancestral Puebloan habitation site that dates from the Late Developmental to Coalition period and is one of at least 100 prehistoric sites containing a ceramic component recorded in the valley bottoms and foothills of the Manzanita Mountains. The site is located at 1,828 m (6,000 ft) elevation within the lands withdrawn from the Cibola National Forest to Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) along an alluvial fan on the south side of Coyote Creek, a large tributary of Tijeras Arroyo. Water erosion had impacted the cultural deposits and exposed the remains of a pithouse feature in the cutbank of a tributary drainage of Arroyo del Coyote. The site was initially documented in 1985 and the masonry features at the site were tested during a geophysical study in 1996. The pithouse feature was exposed in profile along the cutbank and determined to be located in a deep depression that was also marked as a magnetic anomaly during geophysical testing. The pithouse, which was later excavated by volunteers from TRC Mariah and the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, is the focus of this report.