New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 10 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION › Part 14 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES ON PRIVATE LAND AND MECHANICAL EXCAVATION PERMITS › Section 4.10.14.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Agent"
means an individual who is authorized by a written
				agreement with a private landowner to act on behalf of the landowner and who
				works under the landowner's personal and direct supervision.
B.
"Archaeological
				investigation"
means the study of archaeological sites, isolates and
				areas of historic and scientific interest including without limitation survey
				and inventory, examination, collection, limited tests, test excavation,
				excavation and monitoring.
C.
"Archaeological site"
or
"site"
means a location
				where there exists material evidence of the past life and culture of human
				beings in the state and is the location of a significant event, a prehistoric
				or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether
				standing, ruined or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or
				archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure. An
				archaeological site typically is 50 or more years old. Examples of
				archaeological sites include without limitation campsites, habitation sites,
				ruins of buildings and structures, artifact scatters, resource procurement or
				processing areas, agricultural fields, locales with one or more features in
				association with other cultural materials.
D.
"Committee"
or
"CPRC"
means the cultural properties review committee
,
created pursuant to Section
				18-6-4
				NMSA 1978 of the Cultural Properties Act.
E.
"Cultural property"
means a
				structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific,
				architectural or other cultural significance.
F.
"Excavation"
means to
				systematically dig up artifacts, deposits or material remains within the
				boundaries of an archaeological site, isolate or area of historic and
				scientific interest using hand tools or mechanical earth-moving
				equipment.
G.
"Historic
				preservation division"
or
"HPD"
means the division within
				the department of cultural affairs created pursuant to Subsection A of Section
				18-6-8
				NMSA 1978 of the Cultural Properties Act.
H.
"Human burial"
or
"unmarked human burial"
means a human body or human skeletal
				remains and includes any funerary object, material object or artifact buried,
				entombed or sepulchered with that human body or skeletal remains.
I.
"Individual unmarked human burial
				excavation permit"
is a permit issued by the CPRC with the concurrence
				of the state archaeologist and the SHPO for the excavation of unmarked human
				burials on state or private land. Individual unmarked human burial permits are
				submitted with an application for a project-specific permit for excavation and
				when unmarked human burials are known to exist within the project
				area.
J.
"Material
				remains"
means any tangible evidence of past human life or activities.
				Such evidence includes without limitation:
(1)
				naturally occurring objects or raw materials extracted for use in the
				production of human-made objects or for other uses by humans that can be found
				within an archaeological site, or another context from which intended or actual
				human use can be reasonably inferred;
(2) items manufactured or modified by humans,
				including whole or fragmentary tools, implements, containers, and other objects
				such as pottery, ceramics, basketry, cordage, weavings, textiles, glassware,
				flaked stone, ground stone, pecked stone, worked bone, metal, wood, hide,
				feathers and pigments;
(3)
				byproducts, waste products and debris resulting from the manufacture or use of
				human-made items or from the human use of natural materials;
(4) organic material deposited through human
				actions, organic material remaining from the decay of perishable objects
				manufactured or modified by humans, and organic material deposited through
				natural processes when found within an archaeological site including without
				limitation soil or sediment samples, botanical and animal remains and
				coprolites; or
(5) human remains
				including without limitation bone, mummified flesh, teeth, the remains of
				cremations, any associated artifacts and objects, and the soil, sediments, or
				other matrix in which the human skeletal or mummified remains and associated
				artifacts and objects were deposited or are now associated.