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1 <br />45 <br />will be made to fmd and inventory every artifact. Preliminary information from this inventory will <br />be used to guide specific placement of data recovery excavations, and may also provide sufficient <br />' information in certain areas that proposed data recovery excavations may be unnecessary. Collection <br />will be limited to samples of typical materials, unusual items, items (or samples of classes of items) <br />' that provide good temporal control, worked glass, chipped stone tools, obsidian artifacts, and non- <br />historic ceramics. <br />' Data Recovery Excavations <br />Additional systematic excavations will be undertaken. The focus of this work will be on <br />' Structure 1, the adobe residence. The goal of these excavations will be to obtain azchitectural <br />information regarding the structure's construction, and associated artifacts. Three other featwes, are <br />associated with Structure 1. These include the possible jacal structure on the northwest side, the <br />' possible horno on the southwest side, and the subsurface feature found in Test Pit 5 on the southwest <br />side. Excavations will not cover any of these features in their entirety, but will be placed to provide <br />a sufficient sampling of the azea to recover information concerning function, construction methods <br />' and episodes, and temporal and spatial associations between the four features. Up to 15 sq m of <br />additional excavation will be placed at Structure 1 and its associated features. <br />' Other excavations, probably consisting of single 1 sq m units, will be placed at other feature <br />locations in an effort to determine function, age, and intrasite association. These features include <br />Feature 4 (possible dugout), Feature 5 (possible structure of unknown function), Feature 7 (possible <br />domestic structure), the bam/pen area, and the dump location on the northwest site periphery. <br />Excavation will be avoided at any of these locations if it is determined that a systematic surface <br />' collection of artifacts and building materials might serve to provide the same information. Up to <br />eight squaze meters of excavation is proposed in these areas. <br />' Expansion of either Test Pit 3 or Test Pit 7 into a small block excavation is recommended. <br />Both of these test pits produced artifacts from the historic and lithic components of the site and are <br />also somewhat spatially segregated from the site's structural remains. The materials found in these <br />' two test pits may represent the remains of outdoor activity areas and could provide further functional <br />and chronological information, as well as information about the possible association between the <br />' historic and lithic component. Up to 10 additional square meters are proposed in this azea. <br />The total of thirty-three square meters proposed will be treated as a "pool" as excavation <br />' proceeds. The focus of excavation, and thus the allotted square meters, may shifr as initial <br />excavation results come in, so that areas with greater potential for significant contributions to the <br />reseazch design receive the most attention, and areas that tum out to be relatively unproductive do <br />' not absorb more effort than is warranted. <br />Artifact and Sample Analysis <br />1 The artifacts and materials recovered from excavation and from surface collection will be <br />. analyzed to derive functional, temporal, and ethnic associations. This information will be used to <br />' address these issues on an intrasite and intersite basis, and to support or refute, and certainly <br /> <br />