Archaeological Research at LA 835, The Pojoaque Grant Site
By Steven A. Lakatos Hosted by the Albuquerque Archaeological Society
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM
at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
2000 Mountain Road NW
LA 835, the Pojoaque Grant Site, initially excavated during the summer of 1953 by Stanley A. Stubbs, is arguably the most popularized late Developmental site in the northern Rio Grande region. Lending to its notoriety is the presence of non-local decorated black-on-white ceramic types along with a large architectural feature interpreted as a great kiva. However, due to Stubbs’s death in 1959, those investigations remain under-reported. Hence, most of what is known about LA 835 is derived from a short El Palacio article by Stubbs, areal summaries, brief pottery descriptions, and tree-ring data. While these studies have all contributed to a growing body of knowledge, not until now has their combined strength been used to inform on the settlement, occupation history, and pottery production at this important site.
Steven A. Lakatos is a Project Director at the Office of Archaeological Studies in Santa Fe. He has worked in the American Southwest for over 20 years, participating in numerous survey, excavation, and public outreach projects. His field experience includes investigations of Paleo-Indian and Archaic manifestations in southeast New Mexico, Basketmaker and ethnohistoric Navajo occupations in the southern Chuska Valley, and Coalition-Classic Period sites on the Pajarito Plateau. Currently, his research interests are focused on the archaeology of the Northern Rio Grande Valley, particularly Developmental Period (A.D. 600-1200), exploring demographic trends and community formation as populations grew and expanded in the northern Rio Grande Valley during this and subsequent periods.
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AAS Field Trips Scheduled March 20 and April 24. See Below for Details
MINUTES OF THE ALBUQUERQUE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
February 16, 2010
Ann Carson presided. Guests were welcomed and interested parties were invited to join AAS.
The minutes of the January meeting were approved as published.
Refreshments were provided by Libby Ratliff and Arlette Miller with the assistance of Helen Crotty. Jacqueline Johnson hopes to return soon.
ROCK ART: The Rio Puerco BLM group has been to the San Antonio area, where Piro and Spanish art is to be found. Milford Fletcher said work at Diamond Tail will resume in March.
LIBRARY: Karen Armstrong reported that Craig Fredrickson has been working on the archive, now at the interpretive center at the Sandia Ranger Station. Nancy Woodworth is having bookplates printed.
HIBBEN CENTER ARCHIVING: Karen announced that the next project would be AS-7, followed by a major project, the nature of which will be announced later.
POTTERY SOUTHWEST: Arlette Miller read Patricia Lee’s email reporting that the fall issue “has gone live.” It will be dedicated to the late Paul Kay. The winter issue will include an article by Hayward Franklin.
SITEWATCH: Mark Rosenblum, who will be attending the state SiteWatch meeting Feb. 19-21, said training has been completed in Taos and Elephant Butte.
ASNM: Nancy Woodworth is recruiting board members for the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, of which AAS is an affiliate. There are four openings on the Board. Terms begin with the Annual Meeting in Santa Fe in May, and additional Board meetings are held in May, September, and February.
FIELD TRIPS: Jerry Williams proposes an all-day trip April 24 with stops on I-25 and then on Highway 3 to the Villanueva area for lunch and on to Las Vegas for dinner (optional). Later trips might include the Zuni highlands and Pottery Mound (which currently has access issues). Gretchen Obenauf announced a day trip to Pa’ako led by Richard Chapman of OCA on the weekend of March 20-21. A straw vote by members present indicated that a Saturday date was preferred. Final arrangements will be announced.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ann mentioned the Albuquerque Museum’s exhibit of photos of Isleta Pueblo by Charles Lummis.
The Antiquarian Book Sale will be at UNM on April 2 and 3.
New Mexico History Museum Director Frances Levine will tell the tale of Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of the Governor and a target of the Inquisition for allegedly practicing secret Jewish rituals in the mid-1660s, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, in the Museum auditorium. Free with museum admission.
Karen Armstrong is looking for photos of Tonque Pueblo, which was excavated by AAS members. An exhibit on that pueblo was held at the Albuquerque Museum in 1968. Please contact her if you have any information about the exhibit or photos from the Tonque dig.
SPEAKER:
Joan Mathien introduced Glenda Deyloff, who has been working on LA 2, the Agua Fria Schoolhouse site in Santa Fe. Field work was completed last November, and most of the artifacts have not been washed yet, but there is plenty to report.
Mera first recorded the site in the early 1900s, and it is related to LA-1 (Pindi Pueblo) which is on the other side of the Santa Fe River. The site is cut by Agua Fria Road at the San Ysidro crossing. Kidder,
who trenched near standing walls in 1911, thought it dated from the 1400s, but tree-ring studies push the date back to the 1300s.
Ms. Dyloff’s project found a Spanish colonial house, whose family still lives nearby. She also located an earlier Coalition segment. Some boundaries of the site remain speculative, but local residents continue to find artifacts when they dig in their yards.
Santa Fe County was planning work on the roadway; so it arranged to have the right of way tested on both the east and west sides of the road. Many room blocks as well as pit structures were found on the east side. Rainy weather caused many problems, but the excavators still found a large trash midden, lots of ceramics, and some corn cobs.
On the west side were found pit structures, an activity surface, a ground stone cache, and a roasting pit full of ash and charcoal. Feature 55 was a large, complicated area of overlapping pits with evidence of corn cobs, husks, charcoal and trash. Feature 58 had a plastered floor and linear impressions of subfloor channels that radiated from the hearth. There was a possible foot drum and post holes that may indicate a screen for the drum.
Water, phone and an abandoned gas line run through the site, adding to the difficulties of the dig, which has since been filled in by the County. In all, more than 125,000 artifacts were recovered, 110,000 of which are ceramics, 9,000 lithics, plus groundstone and animal bones.
Analysis will focus on community formation and dynamics with Pindi, Arroyo Hondo, and other pueblos. The lithics will be studied to relate them to their sources.
Respectfully submitted,
---- Arlette Miller, Secretary
AAS FIELD TRIPS SCHEDULED
Pa’ako Field Trip March 20. A short field trip to the ruins of Paako, which was occupied during early Pueblo IV and again in the Historic Period, has been scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 10 a.m. to about noon. The trip will be led by Richard C. Chapman, Director of UNM’s Office of Contract Archaeology. Participants will meet at the site, which is on the west side of Highway 14 about 8 ¼ miles north of the Cedar Crest/Tijeras exit from I-40 and between the two entrances to the Paa-ko subdivision (If you get to the Paa-ko golf course entrance, you’ve gone too far). There will be a signup sheet at the March meeting, or you can contact Lou Schuyler by email (Lou.Schuyler@comcast.net) or phone (856-7090). Fallback date for the trip in the event of inclement weather will be March 27.
All Day Trip April 24 to the Glorieta Frontier and Gateway for the Santa Fe Trail. Jerry Williams, our newest Board member and Field Trip Chair, is planning an early start (7:00 a.m.) for an event-packed tour to the north, with stops at the La Bajada Rest Area, Glorieta Pass, Pecos Pueblo, San Miguel del Bado, Villanueva (lunch), Fort Union, Watrous, La Castenada, and Las Vegas, returning to Albuquerque in the evening. There will be a signup sheet at the March and April meetings, or you can contact Lou Schuyler by email (Lou.Schuyler@comcast.net) or phone (856-7090)
THE GLORIETA FRONTIER AND GATEWAY FOR THE SANTA FE TRAIL APRIL 24, 2010
Departure time : 7:00 AM from northside parking lot of Lowes at Paseo del Norte and I-25
Things to Bring : Camera /maybe binoculars Jacket or Sweater
Water bottle Sunscreen
Good Walking Shoes Lunch and/or snacks
Potential Schedule :
7:40 AM stop : La Bajada Rest Area (briefing by Dr. Williams)
TOPICS: [Santa Fe and Chihuahua trails]
[Glorieta Pass Landscape as a Gateway
[Physiographic Boundaries]
8:40 AM stop : Pigeon’s Ranch at Glorieta Pass
TOPICS: [ Civil War and Glorieta Pass]
[route] [Glorieta to San Miguel]
9:40 AM stop: Pecos Pueblo [Cicuye: the Gateway Pueblo]
[route] [Along the Pecos River]
11:00 AM stop : San Miguel del Bado the Spanish frontier.
[ Santa Fe trail crossing of the Pecos]
[route] San Miguel to Villanueva along the upper Pecos
12:00 LUNCH [Villanueva: the defensive model ]Spanish Village Plan at either Villanueva or at Ribera near I-25 [route] east to Kearny Gap/ passing the Hogbacks
[entrenched trail ruts of the SF Trail]
2:00 PM [route] north to Fort Union and Watrous
2:45 PM stop : Fort Union [adobehenge of the northeast prairies]
[ Loma Pardo: the Sodom on the Mora]
4:00 PM [route] to Watrous: Stop: [the western La Junta]
[ Tiptonville: Methodist and education]
[route] to Las Vegas
5:00 PM stop: La Castenada [the Santa Fe railroad town/ Fred Harvey and the 20 th Century Las Vegas]
5:30 PM stop: to Las Vegas Plaza [the 19 th Century settlement]
[the dual town concept]
optional
6:15 PM stop: Montezuma Hot Springs [ quick dip?? ]
[ Hot Springs, natural features, and railroad resorts]
7:15 PM completion of tour/ return to in Albuquerque
and/or dinner in Las Vegas [on Bridge Street]
NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE
Arizona Unprepared to Secure Closed Archaeological Parks. With the first wave of state park closures that began February 22, officials were still struggling with basic questions on how to secure the vast properties. Homolovi Ruins near Winslow and Lyman Lake near St. Johns were the first to be closed as a result of steep budget cuts to the parks system. Parks officials posted signs telling visitors about the closures, and for the time being, a ranger was expected to be on hand to answer questions. More than a month after the shutdown announcement, officials remained uncertain about how to secure the park perimeters and protect their assets. - Arizona Republic 3/8/2010 [From Archaeology Today, a service of the Center for Desert Archaeology.
Utah Legislature Seeks to Limit Federal Law Enforcement. Kane County Sheriff Lamont Smith said the federal encroachment has been so broad that federal rangers have taken to writing tickets for everything from expired registrations to broken tail lights to violators stopped on U.S. 89 near Lake Powell. As an example of what they say is "encroachment," Noel and the sheriffs pointed to events like last spring's Federal raid that led to more than two dozen arrests of people accused of stealing or possessing Native American artifacts and a May showdown between BLM agents and off-road enthusiasts at the Paria River corridor. http://tinyurl.com/ygddzt3 - Deseret News [From Archaeology Today.]
Utah Politicians Express Outrage over Potential Cedar Mesa National Monument Designation. A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of the Interior has raised the prospect that the Cedar Mesa area in San Juan County could be designated as a national monument. The monument could be designated without Congressional approval or public input through the Antiquities Act. The same course was used near San Juan County, Utah in the 1996 designation of the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument in adjacent Garfield and Kane counties and in the 1999 designation of the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in adjacent Montezuma and Dolores counties in Colorado. While federal officials downplayed the document and stated that it is just a "draft memo", the response was strong among Congressional, state and local officials.
www. sjrnews.com/pages/full_story/ content_instance_id=6450758 [From Archaeology Today.]
UPCOMING EVENTS
Free Public Lectures
Thomas E. Chávez, "Juan Martinez de Montoya and the Establishment of Santa Fe," Saturday, March 13, 2 p.m., New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Free with museum admission.
Sue Ruth, “Women’s Toolkits: Technological Organization, Social Context, and Motor Skills,” Thursday, March 25, 4 p.m., Hibben 105. Maxwell Museum Association and UNM Department of Anthropology Kennedy Lecture.
Robin Farwell Gavin,"The Journey of Mayólica," Saturday, April 17, 2 p.m., New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Free with museum admission.
Benefit Public Lectures
Bruce Huckell, “Boca Negra Wash Folsom Site: Ancient Hunters, Urban Development, and the Challenges of Site Preservation,” Monday, March 15, 6 p.m., $12. Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe. Southwest Seminars, benefiting The Archaeological Conservancy.
Donald D. Fowler and Catherine Fowler, “Great Basin: The Other Laboratory for Anthropology,” Monday, March 22, 6 p.m., $12. Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe. Southwest Seminars, benefiting The Archaeological Conservancy.
Mark Alkdenderfer, “4000 Years of Andean Gold,” Monday, March 29, 6 p.m., $12. Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe. Southwest Seminars, benefiting The Archaeological Conservancy.
John Ware, “Eastern Pueblo Historical Disjunction: Fact, Fallacy, or Something In-Between,” Monday, April 5, 6 p.m., $12. Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe. Southwest Seminars, benefiting The Archaeological Conservancy.
Conferences
American Rock Art Research Association Annual Conference : March 26-29, Del Rio, TX. See arara.org.
Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies Symposium: A pril 9-11, Hobbs, Western Heritage Museum Complex, 5317 Lovington Highway, Hobbs, NM 88240, Contact csmith@nmjc.edu.
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting: April 14-18, St. Louis, MO.See saa.org.
Archaeological Society of New Mexico Annual Meeting : April 30-M ay 2, Santa Fe. See ASNM website newmexico-archaeology.org for details and registration information.
Tularosa Basin 2010 Conference May 14 and 15, with tours on May 16. Tays Center at NMSU-Alamogordo. More information from dgreenwald@tularosa.net.
Pecos Conference August 12-15, Silverton Colorado. Website in preparation, meanwhile
Twitter https://twitter.com/2010Pecos.
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