Architecture is actually visible on one site. Storage pits invariably also occur in residential sites, but none are visible. The data thus indicate that Anasazi sites are likely to at least partially buried. Residential site setting selection differentiate the Early Navajo from the Anasazi. Both Early Navajo residential sites and activity areas are in slopes, with rocky or thin soils and all are eroded.
All sites exhibit low probabilities for buried features.
Residential features are exposed or could be exposed with shallow stripping excavation. All nonresidential activity sites in this sample, are in settings where their content is nearly entirely exposed. All of these sites are adjacent to escarpments on mesa benches that invariably are eroded and thus have shallow soils. As a consequence, all types of features are exposed, visible, and low potential for feature and deposit burial.