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37 <br />Mehls (1984) indicates that data gaps exist for the following contexts: <br />' Studies on individual settlements to identify layout, cultural use, and plaza construction details <br />Surveys of early farm areas <br />' Detailed maps of the vary land use system <br />' Representative plaza, cordillera, and vara field systems... <br />Hill (1984) addresses the data gaps by stating that: <br />' 7ltese areas did not go through the "booster" era as did most Colorado towns in the late 19th and eazly <br />20th centuries. Hence the boosters' bird's-eye views are missing... Generally, the data is likely to be <br />' of average quality, but it is certainly worth investigating. <br />An important consideration concerning the future needs of these types of sites is shazed by both <br />' Mehls (1984) and Hill (1984). Mehls and Hill both indicate that: <br />Because of the importance of the resources and the rate at which the resources are being affected by <br />' fanning and other development, it is important to identify and record the location and remains of the <br />early Hispanic settlements. Such a survey would require the combined skills of an historian <br />specializing in the history of the region and an historic[al] archaeologist... (Mehls 1984) <br />N A description, analysis and evaluation o(this area's past and present planning is important. Field <br />research is important. An analysis of aerial photo and highway maps would be a reasonable first step. <br />Field studies with an archeological dimension will also be useful. (Hill 1984) <br />Research Questions <br />A preliminary outline of relevant research questions is presented derived from Mehls (1984), <br />' Hill (]984) and Buckles and Buckles (1984) with additional information provided by Carrillo (1990, <br />1994). Pertinent reseazch questions from Mehls (1984) and Hill (1984) are presented in Table 11. <br />The data from the Colorado Historical Archaeology Context (Buckles and Buckles (1984) is more <br />' difficult to address in terms of the material culture. The periods are defined through the combined <br />use of sociopolitical historical components (i.e. Conquest of Mexico to Gold Rush: 1849 to 1859) <br />which ironically do not lend themselves to characterization of what might be expected in tetras of <br />' material culture. On the other hand, the use of an economic perspective defines episodes that <br />integrate the production of specific manufactured material items within specific historical periods. <br />However, these manufacture periods, in many cases, cross-cut the political and economic period <br />' designations. As an example, one manufacture episode, such as the production and use of the <br />architecture-related artifact group of cut nails (ca. 1790 [0 1890) may temporally associate a site, <br />such as SLA7186 (1870s-1930s), with several of the historical archaeology RP3 themes--i.e. Gold <br />' Rush to Statehood (1860-1876) or Statehood to Silver Crash (1877 to 1893), though the site may <br />. have little or nothing to do with that particular socio-political episode. <br />