Publication Date

4-18-1964

Abstract

In the summer of 1962, the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico excavated twenty-three prehistoric sites on the right-of-way of a new highway, U. S. Interstate 40. The sites, located just south of the present U. S. Highway 66 from Bluewater, N. M., to the Fort Wingate ordinance depot, east of Gallup, N. M., appeared to be of Pueblo II Providence, as that culture period is broadly known. Analysis of the sites in terms of the overall Pueblo II pattern throughout the Anasazi southwest is made difficult by the lack of detailed consideration of the period. Generalized descriptions are available in several sources, but these are necessarily broad because of this period of development never has been studied extensively. More detailed treatments of the period have been made in some excavation reports, but these usually deal only with the area immediately surrounding the excavation.

Document Type

Thesis

Language

English

Degree Name

Anthropology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Anthropology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Florence Hawley Ellis

Second Committee Member

Frank Cumming Hibben

Third Committee Member

Donald Colgett Cutter

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