PERMFILE111962

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/2/1997
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 05 CULTURAL RESOURCES REPORT 5
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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• Research Design Summary and Assessment of Preliminary Results
The general theme of the reseazch design is to contribute to understanding the complex
interactions that occurred between three very different populations who have occupied the upper
Purgatoire River region since the time of European contact. These groups aze the Native Americans,
who where here at the outset, Hispanic New Mexicans who moved north into the azea from their
heartland along the middle Rio Grande valley in what is now New Mexico, and Americans, who
were moving west across the continent as part of the great westwazd expansion that chazacterized
the United States during the late 1700s and 1800s. The interactions among these populations has
run the gamut from complete cooperation to military hostility. In the process, various aspects of
economies, cultures, technologies, subsistence strategies, religion, and settlement patterns have been
interchanged, stolen, subsumed, discazded, adapted or destroyed.
It is of interest to understand these interactions, and how they resulted from and have affected
the involved populations, as well as haw they continue to affect the region. Overall histories of the
era and of the region provide amacro-view of the issue, but tend to bring a generalized and distorted
perspective usually resulting from the ethnic orientation of the presenter, which is typically from the
point of view of the American expansion into and occupation of the region. To better understand
the history of the region, an examination from the perspectives of the other two population groups
is critical, as well as an examination of the finer-grained information available from addressing
single sites ana focusing on the day-to-day activities of small groups of people, families, or
individuals within those populations, as they aze affected by and reflect the lazger socio-economic,
• political, and cultural realms that were in place at the time. This micro-view approach, when
understood within the lazger context of the history of the area, has great information potential.
SLA7186 provides one such "laboratory" for this approach.
The treatment plan touches upon a number of sources for information that can be used to
address these issues. SLA7186, though it represents the latter portion of the lazger period of interest,
does present several good opportunities and situations that lend themselves to constructive
contribution to the research issues: I) it retains good azchaeological integrity with a recoverable
artifact assemblage in association with extant structural remains, 2) most of the site is undisturbed
from the time of its abandonment, aside from normal erosion and deterioration, 3) there remains a
good historic record of ownership, 4) there aze several first- and second-hand informant sources for
the site, and finally, 5) all of these qualities can be brought together in a comprehensive examination
of the site that would not be possible if the reseazch focus was narrowed to only one or two of these
avenues of inquiry. Not only will this benefit the understanding of the site and the lazger reseazch
problems to which it can be brought to beaz, it also provides a forum within which to understand
relationships between these different sources of information, so that interpretation of other similaz
sites can be enhanced.
Excavation, other in-field data recovery, and the ongoing records reseazch and informant
interviews has and is deriving a wide variety of information that will be used to address issues of
chronology, ethnicity, socio-economy, subsistence, settlement pattems, technology and culture. The
• chronological framework is well established for the site and can be structured around the chain of
title. Architectural information and artifactual remains from the site provide additional chronological