NRHP Eligibility Evaluation of Four Sites on the Lead-in-Lines to Oscura Range and 12 Sites in Oscura Range, White Sands Missile Range, Lincoln County, NM
Creators: name: DeVos, Jim
Publisher: name: (:unav)
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Southwest New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6959/southwest-new-mexico
subject: White Sands Missile Range
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/81008/white-sands-missile-range
subject: Alamogordo, New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85954/alamogordo-new-mexico
subject: Otero (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/7145/otero-county
subject: New Mexico (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/299/new-mexico-state-territory
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/32/late-archaic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Early Formative
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/20/early-formative
subject: Early Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5396/early-archaic
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: Middle Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3094/middle-archaic
subject: Late Paleoindian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5226/late-paleoindian
subject: WWII
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5196/wwii
subject: LA111315
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134127/la111315
subject: LA111313
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134125/la111313
subject: LA111317
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134129/la111317
subject: LA60700
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134134/la60700
subject: LA60701
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/133977/la60701
subject: LA111304
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134116/la111304
subject: LA111307
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134119/la111307
subject: LA111308
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134120/la111308
subject: LA111305
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134117/la111305
subject: LA111306
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134118/la111306
subject: LA111311
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134123/la111311
subject: LA111312
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134124/la111312
subject: LA111309
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134121/la111309
subject: LA111310
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/134122/la111310

description: Between July 10 and 19 of 2015, archaeologists with Versar, Inc., conducted National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluations at 16 sites on Oscura Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), Lincoln County, New Mexico. This project was conducted under contract to Weston Solutions, Inc. on behalf of the Air Education and Training Command (AFCEC), Holloman Air Force Base (HAFB), and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). All of the sites are located within or in the vicinity of the Oscura Bombing Range, and, thus, there is the potential for adverse impacts to them from base activities. These site evaluations were conducted in order to assist in compliance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended through 1992), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regulation (36 CFR Part 800), and compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990.
To evaluate the NRHP eligibility of the sites, each location was inspected and all cultural manifestations were documented. Information was collected on cultural assemblages to capture temporal data and establish site boundaries. Limited subsurface investigations (e.g., trowel tests) were also implemented to investigate the potential for buried cultural materials and establish and/or confirm geomorphic contexts. Sites that retained geomorphic integrity and demonstrated the potential to provide significant information regarding regional research issues were recommended eligible for inclusion in the NRHP; sites that do not were recommended ineligible.
Of the 16 sites evaluated during this investigation, two prehistoric sites are recommended eligible for inclusion in the NRHP and 14 (12 prehistoric and two historic) are recommended ineligible. One of the NRHP-eligible sites (LA 111311) represents Late Archaic/Early Formative period occupation and the other (LA 111308) multiple components that include Early, Middle and Late Archaic/Early Formative activities as well as U.S. territorial to WWII activities. Of the ineligible sites, four (one post WWII historic [LA 60701], one unassigned prehistoric [LA 86478], one unassigned prehistoric to historic [LA 111315], and one Late Archaic [LA 111442]) were not located at locations initially identified. The remaining ten sites included three unassigned prehistoric (LA 111309, LA 111312, and LA 111313), four multicomponent prehistoric sites (LA 111304, LA 111306, LA 111307, and LA 111317), two Late Archaic period prehistoric sites (LA 111305 and LA 111310), and one Post WWII historic site (LA 60700). The multicomponent sites included one with Late Paleoindian, Middle Archaic and Late Archaic components (LA 111304), one with Early Archaic, Late Archaic and Late Formative components (LA 111306), one with Middle Archaic and Formative period components (LA 111307) and finally one with unassigned prehistoric and Late Paleoindian components (LA 111317).