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12 <br />• ones. The best represented appears to be the middle occupation, probably associated with T. J. <br />Andrews. Evidence from the Trujillo occupation is limited to artifactual remains, since the site's <br />structures were all in place at the time of their occupation. Evidence from the eazliest occupation(s), <br />beginning presu_nably with Lorenzo Sandoval, is limited lazgely to azchitectura] remains of Structure <br />1 and Feature 8. Artifactual evidence from this period is spazse, and consists primarily of <br />construction and azchitecture-related materials, though the surface scatter in the northwestern part <br />of the site appeazs to be at least in part the product of this eazly occupation. While there is some <br />disappointment in the amount of materials from this earliest occupation, that in itself does provide <br />some valuable indication of the economy and subsistence realms within which these eazliest <br />occupants existed. Finally, after the Trujillo family left, Structure 1 was burned. Other structures <br />may have been scavenged for materials or moved to other locations. <br />Excavations and other field investigations have been terminated at a point very near that <br />proposed in the treatment plan. The results of these investigations indicate that there is little <br />potential for recovery of additional significant or different information with further field work. <br />Focus has been duetted more at the Structure 1/Feature 8 complex than originally proposed, but this <br />area tamed out to be both quite a bit more complex that originally understood, and also proved to <br />be the azea where information recovery was the greatest. Since it appeazs to reflect all periods of <br />occupation of the site, it was a logical choice for the bulk of the field work effort. <br />• Oontinuing Investigations <br />From this point, investigations will turn to focus on analysis of the artifacts and samples <br />returned from the field. Some additional records reseazch will be pursued, primarily through the <br />county assessor's office, and possibly also with the National Archives (census information). <br />Informants may also be contacted again with specific questions as they arise and as they appeaz <br />willing to continue to participate in the project. <br />As has been mentioned, four log samples have been sent to the Laboratory of Tree Ring <br />Reseazch at the University of Arizona for tree ring analysis. The dates from these logs should <br />provide a good approximation of the construction date for Structure 1. Outer rings appear to be <br />intact, the logs could have come from within just a mile or two of the site, and there is no reason to <br />assume that their cutting date and the construction date aze divergent. <br />An assemblage of about 650 bones and bone fragments will be analyzed to determine <br />element, taxon, and to identify butchering marks, saw cuts, and other cultural modifications. It is <br />anticipated that this assemblage will reflect a mix of wild and domestic taxa, and will reflect wild <br />game procured for food, domestic species utilized for food or production of food stuffs such as milk <br />or eggs, domestic species that served as pets, and domestic species that served as beasts of burden. <br />Several seeds and pits have been found. They will be identified to taxa. Peach pits aze among the <br />most common in this assemblage. Mr. Trujillo reports that there was an orchazd on the Purgatoire <br />River floodplain in front of the site, and several fruit trees do remain on the periphery of what aze <br />. now hay fields. <br />