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A Pueblo Cave Site at Tres Piedras, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Adelaide K.  and
Ripley P. Bullen
Adelaide K.
Affiliation:
Andover, Massachusetts
Ripley P. Bullen
Affiliation:
Andover, Massachusetts
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Kirk Bryan and A. P. Butler, Jr., reported finding, in 1938, artifacts of glassy andesite on the northwestern part of the Taos Plateau in New Mexico. They concluded: “non-Pueblo peoples having Great Plains affinities appear to have used the material.” Knowing that we were to be in New Mexico, Bryan suggested that we investigate a small cave at Tres Piedras where, in 1940, he had found flakes of the andesite in association with coal. The week of July 7, 1941, was spent at the site.

Tres Piedras is located in the extreme north central part of New Mexico, about twenty-five miles south of the Colorado state line. The site is about two miles south of the town on land owned by Mr. Claire Hawkins, who very kindly gave us permission to excavate.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , July 1942 , pp. 57 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

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