New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 10 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION › Part 16 - STANDARDS FOR EXCAVATION AND TEST EXCAVATION › Section 4.10.16.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Archaeological investigation"
means the study of archaeological sites,
				isolates and other cultural properties and areas of historic and scientific
				interest including without limitation survey and inventory, examination,
				collection, limited tests, test excavation, excavation and
				monitoring.
B.
"Archaeological site"
or
"site"
means a location where
				there exists material evidence of the past life and culture of human beings in
				the state. A significant archaeological site typically is 50 or more years old.
				Examples of archaeological sites include without limitation campsites, pueblos,
				homesteads, artifact scatters, resource procurement or processing areas,
				agricultural fields, locales with one or more features in association with
				other cultural materials, and locales that have the potential for subsurface
				features or cultural deposits.
C.
"Areas of historic and scientific interest"
means areas lacking
				surface evidence of cultural properties but where there is a high probability
				of finding subsurface material remains and cultural deposits or areas suitable
				for geomorphological or paleoenvironmental study.
D.
"Committee"
or
"CPRC"
means the cultural properties review
				committee
,
created pursuant to Section
				18-6-9
				of the Cultural Properties Act.
E.
"Cultural property"
or
"cultural resource"
means a
				structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific,
				architectural or other cultural significance.
F.
"Excavation"
means
				displacing, disturbing or moving earth, soil, dirt, other deposits or material
				remains from their current contexts or significant orientation in, or on, the
				ground 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 Section
				18-6-8
				A 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.
"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.