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Folsom site. Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC. The Folsom site was excavated in 1926 and found to ...
April 2, 1976. Designated NMSRCP. December 19, 1975. The Ake Site is a name for a prehistoric archaeological location near the town of Datil in the San Augustine Basin of Catron County, New Mexico, United States. It was listed on the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties in 1975, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Casa Rinconada is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site located atop a ridge adjacent to a small rincon across from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northwestern New Mexico, United States. The Ancestral Puebloan great kiva, Casa Rinconada. It is an isolated great kiva (out of four in Chaco Canyon) with all the ...
The division is responsible for the preservation of New Mexico 's historical heritage. The division's activities include: [3] Identifying and recording prehistoric and historic places, nominating them to the National Register of Historic Places and the State Register of Cultural Properties, and maintaining records of those places to be used for ...
November 17, 1983. Designated NMSRCP. August 25, 1983. The Tsama Pueblo is a Tewa Pueblo ancestral site in an address-restricted area of Abiquiú, New Mexico. It was occupied from around 1250 until around 1500 and contained 1100 rooms. [2] The site and others in the area were explored by Florence Hawley Ellis in the 1960s and 1970s. [3]
The Laguna Plata Archeological District is a 3,360 acres (13.6 km 2) historic district in Lea County, New Mexico, near Hobbs, New Mexico, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It included 26 contributing sites . Field investigation was conducted by archeologists in April 2010. It is a seasonal use camp site which ...
Legal archaeology is an area of legal scholarship "involving detailed historical reconstruction and analysis of important cases." [ 1 ] While most legal scholars confine their research to published opinions of court cases, legal archaeologists examine the historical and social context in which a court case was decided. [ 2 ]
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Pub. L. 101-601, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq., 104 Stat. 3048, is a United States federal law enacted on November 16, 1990. The Act requires federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funding [1] to return Native American "cultural items" to lineal descendants and ...