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z Field Work Field work at SLA7186 occurred from August 5 to September 9, 1997. Field work involved excavations, surface collection, and site mapping. A coring effort was also pursued to try and find one or several of the outhouse locations, once the general location of one of the more recent outhouses had been established through informant information. The locations of these efforts aze shown on a site sketch (Figure 1). This map will be updated when the results of the site mapping effort have been processed. Excavation Table 1 Summary of excavation level of effort Thirty-four and one half square meters of formal excavation were Area Recommended Conducted conducted at SLA7186. Their distribution across the site is presented in Structure 1 up to 15 24.5 Table 1, along with a comparison to the Test Pit 3/Test Pit 7 up to 10 5 reconunended levels of effort at each azea from the treatment plan (McKibbin Other features up to 8 5 and Camllo 1997:45). The treatment Total up to 33 34.5 plan indicates the total level of effort for excavation would be treated as a pool, and its distribution would be adjusted • accordingly as results warranted. This was the case, as is evident. Structure 1 (including Feature 8) received considerably more excavation effort than originally planned. This structure turned out to be quite complex, and represents construction episodes from the first two of what appear to be the three primary historic occupations of the site. The azea aoound Test Pits 3 and 7 fumed out to be much less informative than originally hoped. Excavations in this azea do provide good indication that there is in fact an aboriginal component to the site, but also show that this component is poorly represented and has been largely disturbed by later historic activity at the site. Excavations, and surface collection, in other areas and features aoound the site are divided into six different gross analytical units: the collection transects, Feature 10, the "northern isolated test pits," "southern isolated test pits," shovel and auger probes, and general surface collection. Excavations in several of the historic features other than Structure 1 were productive in only one location (at Feature 10). Other excavations in these outlying areas produced minimal artifactual remains and no structural evidence. An extra one and one half square meters above the original recommended level of effort were excavated because some of the last excavation units opened were some of the most productive and informative, and warranted minor expansion because of these results. Structure 1 and Environs. Structure 1 is the adobe house and associated additions. The area also includes Feature 8, asemi-subterranean structure located outside the southeast wall of Structure 1. This complex appeazs to represent all of the residential features at the site. The following construction sequence is proposed: The original residential structure at the site may have been • Feature 8, a dugout, probably dating to around 1880 when the property was first patented. Shortly thereafter, the adobe house was built. The adobe structure has two rooms, both built at the same