Projectile Points, Potsherds, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades Evidence of the Human Legacy on Holloman Air Force Base From a Cultural Resource Sample Survey, Otero County, New Mexico

摘要

The purpose of the project, initially, was to determine site densities by environmental zone for management purposes. By the time the first draft of the report was completed, all base lands had been inventoried. This forced a reorientation of the projects goals to a more settlement pattern based analysis. Such an analysis includes not only sites recorded during the sample survey, but also all recorded sites on HAFB. During the sample survey, a total of 6,530 acres was surveyed on HAFB lands. Forty-four noncontiguous survey units totaling 5,441 acres were inventoried on the Main Base and seven noncontiguous survey units totaling 989 acres at the Boles Wells Water System Annex (BWWSA). The survey was conducted by Human Systems Research, Inc. (HSR), and field work was completed in May of 1995. The report submitted to Martyn Tagg, HAFB archaeologist, did not meet the criteria set forth in the scope of work and was rejected. Mr. Tagg contracted Geo-Marine, Inc. (GMI) to complete the report to HAFB specifications. The intensive cultural resources survey conducted by HSR documented 83 previously unrecorded archaeological sites, and re-evaluated two previously recorded archaeological sites for a total of 85 sites. Sixty sites were recorded on the Main Base and 25 sites at BWWSA. Fifty-four sites are prehistoric, four are historic, eight are military, and seventeen are multi component. One site recorded at BWWSA was not on HAFB property. In addition, several sites were revisited by the HAFB archaeologist and personnel from Geo-Marine, etc. in order to re-evaluate and field check some of the earlier field work.