The Ambrosia Lake project archaeological investigations of three small sites associated with the southern Chacoan outlier of Kin Nizhoni, McKinley County, New Mexico

Technical Report · Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:10130422

Cullington, B J ^[1]; Hammack, L C; Baugh, T G ^[2]

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1. ed.
2. Complete Archaeological Service Associates, Cortez, CO (United States)

During the fall of 1987, Complete Archaeological Service Associates conducted mitigative excavations at three sites (LA50363, LA50364, and LA50371) in McKinley County, New Mexico. These sites are adjacent to the Phillips/United Nuclear Inactive Uranium Mill and Tailings site at Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico. The primary deposition at each of these sites appears to be related to a Pueblo II or Bonito Phase occupation. Temporal placement is based primarily on the cross dating of ceramics and archaeomagnetic determinations when possible. No tree-ring or radiocarbon samples are available from these sites. These Ambrosia Lake sites indicate that this area was occupied primarily by Pueblo II people who may have had close social, economic, and ceremonial ties with the people living at the nuclear community of Lower Nizhoni about 3 km south-southeast. The later component at LA50364 indicates a Pueblo III occupation by people who may have had similar ties to the people of the Kin Nizhoni nuclear community. The Ambrosia Lake sites, then, provide important information on the structure of subnuclear communities within the southern Chaco periphery.

• Research Organization: USDOE Albuquerque Operations Office, NM (United States). Uranium Mill Tailings Project Office; Complete Archaeological Service Associates, Cortez, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-82AL14086
• OSTI ID: 10130422
• Report Number(s): DOE/UMTRA/ARCH-RPT-53; CASA-90-20; ON: DE93008049
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 15 Mar 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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